ABSTRACT

Learning to Labor in New Times foregrounds nine essays which re-examine the work of noted sociologist Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his seminal Learning to Labor, one of the most frequently cited and assigned texts in the cultural studies and social foundations of education.

part |66 pages

Reflecting on Learning to Labor

chapter |20 pages

Male Working-Class Identities and Social Justice

A Reconsideration of Paul Willis's Learning to Labor in Light of Contemporary Research

chapter |19 pages

Between Good Sense and Bad Sense

Race, Class, and Learning from Learning to Labor

part |62 pages

Learning to Labor in New Times

chapter |18 pages

Revisiting a 1980s “Moment of Critique”

Class, Gender, and the New Economy

chapter |15 pages

Learning to Do Time

Willis's Model of Cultural Reproduction in an Era of Postindustrialism, Globalization, and Mass Incarceration

chapter |11 pages

Thinking About the Cultural Studies of Education in a Time of Recession

Learning to Labor and the Work of Aesthetics in Modern Life

part |27 pages

Critical Ethnography, Culture, and Schooling:

chapter |25 pages

Twenty-Five Years On

Old Books, New Times