Working Construction : : Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves—and the Labor Movement—in Harm's Way /

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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Paap, Kris,
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

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