Workers Not Wasters: Masculine Respectability, Consumption and Unemployment in Central Scotland : A Community Study - Couverture rigide

Wight, Daniel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0748604448 ISBN 13 : 9780748604449

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 1994

Synopsis

"Workers Not Wasters" looks at the central issues of masculine respectability and regular employment. It describes the employment ethic in a small community in industrial Scotland and explores how men retain their self-esteem in a period of mass unemployment. Consumption, particularly of alcohol, becomes a sign of social status with the result that poverty is seen as almost the worst consequence of unemployment. This study describes men's strategies developed to cope with poverty - some illegal, others less dangerous - and provides a partial ethnography of working class consumption. Based on participant observation, this book provides a view into the cultural factors governing a community's response to unemployment.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748604448
• ISBN 13: 9780748604449
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible