Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
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...Charlie and Didrik11 came from families where vocational skills had been more common for men than academic education over the generations, much like the families of the ‘lads’ in Willis’ (1977) study....
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...The ‘lads’ in Willis’ (1977) study approached their future with confidence, in spite of not having any higher education since the labour market of that time offered a range of opportunities for a variety of skills sets....
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...For men with low skills, the labour market offers fewer options compared to the situation for their fathers’ and grandfathers’ generations (MacDonald, 2008; Roberts, 2013; Brannen et al., 2018), as indeed Willis’ (1977) study demonstrated....
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...Conversely, Williams (2000; 2003) claims that a degree of generalisation does in fact take place by researchers using what he terms ‘moderatum generalisations’, that is ones in which certain aspects of the research’s focus can be understood as identifiable characteristics....
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...Moderatum generalisations, Williams (2000; 2003) maintains, permit a moderate amount of generalisation and allow comparisons and links with other samples to be made....
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...Paul Willis’ study of working-class boys was ground-breaking in this area as it explored how working-class identities were produced and reproduced (Willis, 1977)....
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...23 Willis, P. (1981) Learning to labour: How working class kids Get Working Class Jobs....
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