Learning to labor

how working class kids get working class jobs

by Paul E. Willis

226 pages

English language

Published July 14, 1981 by Columbia University Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-231-05357-0
OCLC Number:: 7551102

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Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs is a 1977 book on education, written by British social scientist and cultural theorist Paul Willis. A Columbia University Press edition, titled the "Morningside Edition," was published in the United States shortly after its reception.

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4 stars

Difficult read but none the less interesting. I wouldn't recommend it if you are not privy to academic jargon.

Subjects

Labor and laboring classes -- Education -- Great Britain
Youth -- Employment -- Great Britain