Workers Not Wasters: Masculine Respectability, Consumption and Unemployment in Central Scotland : a Community StudyEdinburgh University Press, 1993 - 254 pagine "Regular employment has a central place in the definition of masculine respectability in western industrial culture, and Workers Not Wasters describes the employment ethic in an ex-mining community in central Scotland. To be deemed respectable, however, appropriate consumption is as important an obligation as employment, and this study provides an ethnography of working-class consumption, using men's drinking as a case study. It explores the strategies that men develop to retain their self-esteem in a period of recession, and examines how the experience of unemployment differs between generations, particularly highlighting the social deprivation of poverty. The result provides a rare glimpse into the cultural factors governing a community's response to unemployment."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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