Manhood on the Line Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland - The Working Class in American History
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780252081545 |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
Pub date: | 28 Mar 2016 |
DEWEY: | 331.76292220973 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 272 |
Weight: | 340g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |