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WORKERS NOT WASTERS
MASCULINITY, SOCIAL STATUS AND RESPECTABILITY IN CENTRAL SCOTLAND |
| By: |
Daniel Wight |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£43.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0748604448 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780748604449 |
| Publisher: |
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
10 January, 1994 |
| Series: |
Edinburgh Education & Society Series |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
Describes the employment ethic in a small community in industrial Scotland and explores how men retain their self-esteem in a period of mass unemployment. This study explores men's strategies developed to cope with poverty and provides a partial ethnography of working class consumption. |
| Synopsis: |
"Workers Not Wasters" looks at the central issues of masculine respectability and regular employment. It describes the employment ethic in a small community in industrial Scotland and explores how men retain their self-esteem in a period of mass unemployment. Consumption, particularly of alcohol, becomes a sign of social status with the result that poverty is seen as almost the worst consequence of unemployment. This study describes men's strategies developed to cope with poverty - some illegal, others less dangerous - and provides a partial ethnography of working class consumption. Based on participant observation, this book provides a view into the cultural factors governing a community's response to unemployment. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Edinburgh University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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