Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
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...labour markets and welfare, sought to reproduce these social, cultural and economic conditions of industrialism (Willis, 1977)....
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...The state, through the apparatuses of education, labour markets and welfare, sought to reproduce these social, cultural and economic conditions of industrialism (Willis, 1977)....
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...However, constructing concepts, such as ‘product’ and ‘workplace’, may also help people to penetrate (Willis 1977) and deal with the system, thus to make use of their agency....
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...…Coates (2003, 56) has pointed out, laughter in all-male talk can act as a way of managing vulnerability ‘in a rather tangential way’, while Paul Willis (1977, 29) has described the lads’ ‘laff’ as a ‘multi-faceted implement’ used ‘as a way out of almost anything’, including situations…...
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...As Jennifer Coates (2003, 56) has pointed out, laughter in all-male talk can act as a way of managing vulnerability ‘in a rather tangential way’, while Paul Willis (1977, 29) has described the lads’ ‘laff’ as a ‘multi-faceted implement’ used ‘as a way out of almost anything’, including situations generating anxieties....
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...A compelling claim in much research into masculinities in compulsory education (cf. Mac an Ghaill 1994; Willis 1977; Frosh, Phoenix, and Pattman 2002; Jackson 2006) is that the social positioning of young men in groups designated as low ability encourages the construction of an anti-establishment…...
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...A compelling claim in much research into masculinities in compulsory education (cf. Mac an Ghaill 1994; Willis 1977; Frosh, Phoenix, and Pattman 2002; Jackson 2006) is that the social positioning of young men in groups designated as low ability encourages the construction of an anti-establishment masculinity in response to feelings of ‘domination, alienation and infantilism’ (Mac an Ghaill 1994, 57)....
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...This association is likely to have roots in Paul Willis’ (1977) work, where his ‘lads’ were white, working-class, anti-school boys....
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