Learning to Labor in New Times / Edition 1

by Nadine Dolby, Greg Dimitriadis

Overview

Learning to Labor in New Times foregrounds nine essays which re-examine the work of noted sociologist Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his seminal Learning to Labor, one of the most frequently cited and assigned texts in the cultural studies and social foundations of education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415948555
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/12/2004
Series:	Critical Social Thought
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nadine Dolby is Assistant Professor of Education Foundations/Comparative and International Education at Northern Illinois University.
Greg Dimitriadis is in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
Paul Willis is Professor of Social and Cultural Ethnography at Keele University.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Stanley AronowitzChapter 1: Learning to Labor in New Times: An Introduction, Nadine Dolby and Greg DimitriadisSECTION I: REFLECTING ON LEARNING TO LABORChapter 2: Male Working Class Identities and Social Justice: A Reconsideration of Paul Willis's Learning to Labor in Light of Contemporary Research, Madeleine ArnotChapter 3: Paul Willis, Class Consciousness, and Critical Pedagogy: Toward a Socialist Future, Peter McLaren and Valerie Scatamburlo-D'AnnibaleChapter 4: Between Good Sense and Bad Sense: Race, Class, and Learning from Learning to Labor, Michael W. AppleChapter 5: The Lads and the Cultural Topography of Race, Fazal RizviSECTION II: LEARNING TO LABOR IN NEW TIMESChapter 6: Reordering Work and Destabilizing Masculinity, Jane Kenway and Anna KraackChapter 7: Revisiting a 1980's Moment of Critique: Class, Gender and the New Economy, Lois WeisChapter 8: Learning to Do Time: Willis's Model of Cultural Reproduction in an Era of Post-industrialism, Globalization, and Mass Incarceration, Kathleen Nolan and Jean AnyonChapter 9: Thinking about the Cultural Studies of Education in a Time of Recession: Learning to Labor and the Work of Aesthetics in Modern Life, Cameron McCarthySECTION III: Twenty-Five Years On: Old Books, New Times, Paul WillisAPPENDIX:Centre and Periphery-An Interview with Paul Willis, David Mills and Robert GibbNotes on ContributorsIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Learning to Labor in New Times is intellectually thrilling, politically terrifying, and mobilizing. The book reveals the depths of oppression and, with standard Willis wisdom, the fault lines along which a new set of social revolutions are beginning to take form. Dolby and Dimitriadis have created a must read for educators, activists, scholars, policy makers, youth organizers, and those of us who theorize, research, organize, and rail against the long arm of racialized global capital as it consumes our young." — Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center
"In this rich collection, leading educational researchers show us the continuing relevance of Paul Willis's analytic power and ethnographic commitment to the lived struggles of young women and men, and everyone else." — Jean Lave, University of California, Berkeley

"…Learning to Labor in New Times is a fine tribute to one of the most important achievements in the history of educational and ethnographic research." – David Bills and Su Euk Park, Educational Studies, 43: 263-267, 2008

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