Workers Not Wasters: Masculine Respectability, Consumption and Unemployment in Central Scotland : A Community Study (Edinburgh Education and Society Series) - Hardcover

Wight, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748604448 ISBN 13: 9780748604449

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0748604448
• ISBN 13: 9780748604449
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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