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This book explores the ways in which neoliberal capitalism has reshaped the lives of working-class men around the world. It focuses on the effects of employment change and of new forms of governmentality on men's experiences of both public and private life. The book presents a range of international studies-from the US, UK, and Australia to Western and Northern Europe, Russia, and Nigeria-that move beyond discourses positing a 'masculinity crisis' or pathologizing working-class men. Instead, the authors look at the active ways men have dealt with forms of economic and symbolic marginalization and the barriers they have faced in doing so. While the focus of the volume is employment change, it covers a range of topics from consumption and leisure to education and family.
About the author
Charlie Walker is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of
Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia: Vocational Youth in Transition
and the co-editor of
Innovations in Youth Research
and
Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
.
Steven Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University, Australia. His sole and co-published works include
Youth and Social Class: Enduring Inequality in the UK, Australia and New Zealand
;
Debating Modern Masculinities
;
Class Inequality in Austerity Britain
;
Young People and Social Policy in Europe
; and
Digital Methods for Social Science.
Summary
This book explores the ways in which neoliberal capitalism has reshaped the lives of working-class men around the world. It focuses on the effects of employment change and of new forms of governmentality on men’s experiences of both public and private life. The book presents a range of international studies—from the US, UK, and Australia to Western and Northern Europe, Russia, and Nigeria—that move beyond discourses positing a ‘masculinity crisis’ or pathologizing working-class men. Instead, the authors look at the active ways men have dealt with forms of economic and symbolic marginalization and the barriers they have faced in doing so. While the focus of the volume is employment change, it covers a range of topics from consumption and leisure to education and family.
