Learning to Labor in New Times

Twenty-five years after the publication of Paul Willis's seminal textLearning to Labor, Nadine Dolby and Greg Dimitriadis have brought together an internationally renowned group of scholars to reflect on the meaning and influence of what many consider to be the most influential book of our time in critical education and cultural studies.Learning to Labor in New Timesrefocuses attention on the themes that have been central to Willis's work, including the relationship between schooling and work, the lives of working class youth, and the continuing importance of ethnography as a research methodology. Concluding with an original essay by Paul Willis, readers will be reinvigorated by the intellectual vibrancy of daring to study the daily worlds of everyday youth.

Acknowledgments

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Foreword

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STANLEY ARONOWITZ

1 Learning to Labor in New Times: An Introduction

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NADINE DOLBY AND GREG DIMITRIADIS

Section I: Reflecting on Learning to Labor

2 Male Working-Class Identities and Social Justice: A Reconsideration of Paul Willis's Learning to Labor in Light of Contemporary Research

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MADELEINE ARNOT

3 Paul Willis, Class Consciousness, and Critical Pedagogy: Toward a Socialist Future

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PETER McLAREN AND VALERIE SCATAMBURLO-D'ANNIBALE

4 Between Good Sense and Bad Sense: Race, Class,

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and Learning from Learning to Labor MICHAEL W. APPLE

5 The "Lads" and the Cultural Topography of Race

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FAZAL RIZVI

Section II: Learning to Labor in New Times

6 Reordering Work and Destabilizing Masculinity

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JANE KENWAY AND ANNA KRAACK

7 Revisiting a 1980's "Moment of Critique": Class, Gender and the New Economy

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LOIS WEIS

8 Learning to Do Time: Willis's Model of Cultural Reproduction in an Era of Postindustrialism, Globalization, and Mass Incarceration

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KATHLEEN NOLAN AND JEAN ANYON

9 Thinking About the Cultural Studies of Education in a Time of Recession: Learning to Labor and the Work of Aesthetics in Modern Life

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CAMERON McCARTHY

Section III: Critical Ethnography, Culture and Schooling: Paul Willis Reflects on Learning to Labor

10 Twenty-Five Years On: Old Books, New Times

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PAUL WILLIS

Appendix "Centre" and Periphery-An Interview with Paul Willis

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DAVID MILLS AND ROBERT GIBB

Notes on Contributors

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Index

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