Learning to labor : how working class kids get working class jobs /
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| Author / Creator: | Willis, Paul E., author. |
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| Uniform title: | Learning to labour |
| Edition: | Morningside edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, 1981. ©1977 |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( xiv, 226 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12384359 |
| 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 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, French, Swedish, Japanese and Spanish. |
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| Item Description: | Reprint. Originally published: Learning to labour. Farnborough, England : Saxon House, ©1977. With new introduction and afterword. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( xiv, 226 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1351218786 9781351218788 1351218778 9781351218771 0231053576 0566001500 1857421701 0231178956 1138421847 135121876X 1351218751 |
