Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class JobsThis book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and 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. Paul Willis explores how their own culture can guide working class lads on to the shop floor. This is an uncompromising book which has provoked considerable discussion and controversy in educational circles throughout the world - it has been translated into Finnish, German, French, Swedish, Japanese and Spanish. |
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... sense . The specific milieu , I argue , in which a certain subjective sense of manual labour power , and an objective decision to apply it to manual work , is produced is the working class counter - school culture . It is here where ...
... sense . The specific milieu , I argue , in which a certain subjective sense of manual labour power , and an objective decision to apply it to manual work , is produced is the working class counter - school culture . It is here where ...
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... sense , therefore , that I argue that it is their own culture which most effectively prepares some working class lads for the manual giving of their labour power we may say that there is an element of self - damnation in the taking on ...
... sense , therefore , that I argue that it is their own culture which most effectively prepares some working class lads for the manual giving of their labour power we may say that there is an element of self - damnation in the taking on ...
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... sense having foregone their own right to have a ' laff " - they demand that teachers should at least respect the same authority . There are none like the faithful for reminding the shepherd of his duty . ( In a group discussion with ...
... sense having foregone their own right to have a ' laff " - they demand that teachers should at least respect the same authority . There are none like the faithful for reminding the shepherd of his duty . ( In a group discussion with ...
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