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Working construction why white working-class men put themselves and the labor movement in harm's way

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  • Author: Paap, Kris
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Date:
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    2013
    Contents:
    • Introduction : working construction
    • 1. Political and economic relations of the construction industry
    • 2. Social relations of production
    • 3. "A bitch, a dyke, or a whore ..." : how good men justify white and male dominance
    • 4. |t 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. Bodily costs of this social wage : occupational safety in the construction industry
    • 7. Wages - and costs - of white working-class masculinities
    • App. benefit of being "dumb as rocks" - and other methodological topics.
    Subject(s): Attitudes | Construction industry | Construction workers | Men, White | Safety measures | United States | Working class men
    Original Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2006
    Language(s): English