Manhood on the Line - Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland

Klappentext Stephen Meyer is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin ¿Milwaukee. His books include The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company! 1908 ¿1921 . Zusammenfassung Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. 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 hard world.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Meyer, Stephen (Syracuse University Meyer
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780252040054
• ISBN: 978-0-252-04005-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Working Class in American History; Working Class in American History
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration