Working Construction : : Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves—and the Labor Movement—in Harm's Way / / Kris Paap.
Kris Paap worked for nearly three years as a carpenter's apprentice on a variety of jobsites, closely observing her colleagues' habits, expressions, and attitudes. As a woman in an overwhelmingly male—and stereotypically "macho"—profession, Paap uses her experiences to reveal the...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2006 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 1 chart/graph |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Working Construction
- 1. The Political and Economic Relations of the Construction Industry
- 2. The Social Relations of Production
- 3. "A Bitch, a Dyke, or a Whore .. . ":How Good Men Justify White and Male Dominance
- 4. Bodies at Work: The Social and Physiological Production of Gender
- 5. "We're Animals ... And We're Proud of It": Strategic Enactments of White Working-Class Masculinities
- 6. The Bodily Costs of This Social Wage: Occupational Safety in the Construction Industry
- 7. The Wages-and Costs-of White Working-Class Masculinities
- Appendix: The Benefit of Being "Dumb as Rocks" -and Other Methodological Topics
- Notes
- References
- Index