Learning to Labour : How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of'lads'as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for'the lads'it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents the realisation of liberal education aims. This culture exposes some of the contradictions within these formal aims and actually supplies the operational criteria by which a future in wage labour is judged. Paul Willis explores how their own culture can guide working class lads on to the shop floor. This is an uncompromising book which has provoked considerable discussion and controversy in educational circles throughout the world - it has been translated into Finnish, German, French, Swedish, Japanese and Spanish. "Cover"--"Half Title" -- "Dedication" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Key to transcripts" -- "1 Introduction" -- "The Hammertown case study" -- "PART I ETHNOGRAPHY" -- "2 Elements of a culture" -- "Opposition to authority and rejection of the conformist" -- "The informal group" -- "Dossing, blagging and wagging" -- "Having a laff" -- "Boredom and excitement" -- "Sexism" -- "Racism" -- "3 Class and institutional form of a culture" -- "Class form" -- "Institutional form" -- "4 Labour power, culture, class and institution" -- "Official provision" -- "Continuities" -- "Jobs" -- "Arriving" -- "PART II ANALYSIS" -- "5 Penetrations" -- "Elements of analysis" -- "Penetrations" -- "6 Limitations" -- "Divisions" -- "Labour power and patriarchy" -- "Racialism and labour power" -- "7 The role of ideology" -- "Confirmation" -- "Dislocation" -- "The internal interlocutor" -- "8 Notes towards a theory of cultural forms and social reproduction" -- "Reproduction and state institutions" -- "9 Monday morning and the millennium" -- "Appendix Cover Half Title Dedication Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgements Key to transcripts 1 Introduction The Hammertown case study PART I ETHNOGRAPHY 2 Elements of a culture Opposition to authority and rejection of the conformist The informal group Dossing, blagging and wagging Having a laff Boredom and excitement Sexism Racism 3 Class and institutional form of a culture Class form Institutional form 4 Labour power, culture, class and institution Official provision Continuities Jobs Arriving PART II ANALYSIS 5 Penetrations Elements of analysis Penetrations 6 Limitations Divisions Labour power and patriarchy Racialism and labour power 7 The role of ideology Confirmation Dislocation The internal interlocutor 8 Notes towards a theory of cultural forms and social reproduction Reproduction and state institutions 9 Monday morning and the millennium Appendix Index Introduction : The Hammertown Case Study -- Part I. Ethnography. Elements Of A Culture -- Class And Institutional Form Of A Culture -- Labour Power, Culture, Class And Institution -- Part Ii. Analysis. Penetrations -- Limitations -- The Role Of Ideology -- Notes Towards A Theory Of Cultural Forms And Social Reproduction -- Monday Morning And The Millennium. Paul E. Willis. Includes Index. **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. The author follows a group of young people through the last two years of school and into work examining the barriers to working class school leavers finding typically middle class jobs