Published 1962
by H.P.Smith in Oxford .
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | by H.P. Smith. |
| Series | Adult education & society series -- no.6 |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | 47p.,20cm |
| Number of Pages | 47 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL18441392M |
What I like about the book is that it explores how the idea of manual labour being preferable to mental labour develops early on while in school. Also, that there is a more nuanced picture of the ways in which ideology is formed and reinforced/5. This is despite the inferior rewards for, undesirable social definition, and increasing intrinsic meaninglessness, of manual work: in a word its location at the bottom of a class society.(l] The primary aim of this book is to cast some light on this sur prising process. Download PDF Learning To Labour book full free. Learning To Labour available for download and read online in other formats. From inside the book. What people are saying - Write a review. Other editions - View all. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul E. Willis, Professor Paul Willis Limited preview - Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul E. Willis Snippet view - Learning to Labour.
Buy Learning to Labour 1 by Willis, Paul (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders/5(24). Hailed by the New Society as the "best book on male working class youth," this classic work, first published in , has been translated into several foreign languages and remains the authority in ethnographical studies. Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul E. Willis Snippet view - Learning to 5/5(1). Learning to labour Learning to Labour by Paul Willis () is an ethnographic study of twelve working class ‘lads’ from a school in Birmingham conducted between and He spent a total of 18 months observing the lads in school and then a further 6 months following them into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents the realisation of liberal education aims. This culture exposes some of the contradictions within these formal aims and actually supplies the operational criteria by which a future in wage labour is judged.
Learning to Labour. DOI link for Learning to Labour. Learning to Labour book. Learning to Labour has sometimes been described as a pessimistic book but I can not help but bring a positive interpretation to the text. It is true that ultimately it is the ‘lads’ own choices that lead them to some of the most exploitative jobs that capitalism has to offer. For a list of work emphasizing the limitations of social control theory, see Willis, Paul E., Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (Farnham [etc.], ), p. ; Giroux, Henry A., Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling (Philadelphia, PA, ) ; Gordon, Linda, Heroes of their Own Lives: The Politics. Paul Willis - Summary Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. Learning to labour summary. University. StuDocu University. Course. StuDocu Summary Library EN. Book title Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs; Author. Paul E. .
