Learning to Labor

<p>Hailed by the "New Society" as the "best book on male working class youth," this classic work, first published in 1977, has been translated into several foreign languages and remains the authority in ethnographical studies.

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The unique contribution of this book is that it shows, with glittering clarity, how the rebellion of poor and working class kids against school authority prepares them for working class jobs.No American interested in education or in labor can afford not to read and study this book carefully. -- Stanley Aranowitz

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Paul Willis is Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham University.

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1. IntroductionThe Hammertown case studyPart 1 Ethnography 2. Elements of a cultureOpposition to authority and rejection of the conformistThe informal groupDossing, blagging and waggingHaving a laffBoredom and excitementSexismRacism3. Class and institutional form of a cultureClass formInstitutional form4. Labour power, culture, class and institutionOfficial provisionContinuitiesJobsArrivingPart II Analysis 5. PenetrationsElements of analysisPenetrations6. LimitationsDivisionsLabor power and patriarchyRacialism and labour power7. The role of IdeologyConfirmationDislocationThe internal interlocutor8. Notes towards a theory of cultural forms and social reproductionReproduction and state institutions9. Monday morning and the millennium

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