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Learning to labour : how working class kids get working class jobs / Paul E.Willis.

By: Willis, Paul E.
Publisher: Aldershot, England : Ashgate, c2000Description: ix, 204 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 1857421701.Subject(s): Working class -- Education -- Great Britain | Youth -- Employment -- Great BritainDDC classification: 305.23
Contents:
Preface. - Acknowledgements. - Key to transcripts. - 1. Introduction. The Hammertown case study. - Pt. I Ethnography. 2. Elements of a culture. 3. Class and institutional form of a culture. 4. Labour power, culture, class and institution. - Pt. II Analysis. 5. Penetrations. 6. Limitations. 7. The role of ideology. 8. Notes towards a theory of cultural forms and social reproduction. 9. Monday morning and the millennium. - Index.
Summary: This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents the realisation of liberal education aims. This culture exposes some of the contradictions within these these formal aims and actually supplies the operational criteria by which a future in wage labour is judged. Paul Willis explores how their own culture can guide working class lads on to the shop floor. This is an uncompromising book which has provoked considerable discussion and controversy in educational circles throughout the world it has been translated into Finnish, German, Swedish, Japanese and Spanish. - Back cover.
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Originally published: Saxon House, 1977

Preface. - Acknowledgements. - Key to transcripts. - 1. Introduction. The Hammertown case study. - Pt. I Ethnography. 2. Elements of a culture. 3. Class and institutional form of a culture. 4. Labour power, culture, class and institution. - Pt. II Analysis. 5. Penetrations. 6. Limitations. 7. The role of ideology. 8. Notes towards a theory of cultural forms and social reproduction. 9. Monday morning and the millennium. - Index.

This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents the realisation of liberal education aims. This culture exposes some of the contradictions within these these formal aims and actually supplies the operational criteria by which a future in wage labour is judged. Paul Willis explores how their own culture can guide working class lads on to the shop floor. This is an uncompromising book which has provoked considerable discussion and controversy in educational circles throughout the world it has been translated into Finnish, German, Swedish, Japanese and Spanish. - Back cover.

Sociology : 9699