Manhood on the Line

"In the early twentieth century, industrialization upended long-entrenched notions of gender and work identity in working-class men. Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in response. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail- the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one's dignity while doing hard work in a hard world."--back cover

שנה

2016

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Illinois Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

272

ISBN

9780252040054

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata