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

Stephen Meyer

ISBN 10: 0252040058 / ISBN 13: 9780252040054

Edité par University Of Illinois Press Apr 2016, 2016

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Neuware - 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 .

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• Titre: Manhood on the Line : Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland
• Éditeur: University Of Illinois Press Apr 2016
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0252040058
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780252040054
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 239 L x 160 H x 22 P (en millimètres) 239 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 22 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 580 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

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.