Masculinity, labour, and neoliberalism : working-class men in international perspective

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"This book explores the ways in which neoliberal capitalism has reshaped the lives of working-class men around the world. It focuses on the effects of employment change and of new forms of governmentality on men’s experiences of both public and private life. The book presents a range of international studies—from the US, UK, and Australia to Western and Northern Europe, Russia, and Nigeria—that move beyond discourses positing a ‘masculinity crisis’ or pathologizing working-class men. Instead, the authors look at the active ways men have dealt with forms of economic and symbolic marginalization and the barriers they have faced in doing so. While the focus of the volume is employment change, it covers a range of topics from consumption and leisure to education and family."-- Read more... Abstract: "This book explores the ways in which neoliberal capitalism has reshaped the lives of working-class men around the world. It focuses on the effects of employment change and of new forms of governmentality on men’s experiences of both public and private life. The book presents a range of international studies—from the US, UK, and Australia to Western and Northern Europe, Russia, and Nigeria—that move beyond discourses positing a ‘masculinity crisis’ or pathologizing working-class men. Instead, the authors look at the active ways men have dealt with forms of economic and symbolic marginalization and the barriers they have faced in doing so. While the focus of the volume is employment change, it covers a range of topics from consumption and leisure to education and family." Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Masculinity, Labour and Neoliberalism: Reviewing the Field (Charlie Walker, Steven Roberts)....Pages 1-28 Men, Masculinity and Labour-Force Participation in Kaduna, Nigeria: Are There Positive Alternatives to the Provider Role? (Colette Harris)....Pages 29-52 Yearning to Labour? Working-Class Men in Post-Industrial Britain (Darren Nixon)....Pages 53-75 Formulating the Postindustrial Self: The Role of Petty Crime Among Unemployed, Working-Class Men in Stoke-on-Trent (Ian Mahoney, Tony Kearon)....Pages 77-99 Young Working-Class Men Without Jobs: Reimagining Work and Masculinity in Postindustrial Sweden (Åsa Andersson, Anita Beckman)....Pages 101-123 ‘I Am Going to Uni!’ Working-Class Academic Success, Opportunity and Conflict (Michael R. M. Ward)....Pages 125-145 Becoming a Working-Class Male Adult Learner: Formations of Class and Gender in the Finnish Learning Society (Toni Kosonen)....Pages 147-169 Automobile Masculinities and Neoliberal Production Regimes Among Russian Blue-Collar Men (Jeremy Morris)....Pages 171-193 Masculinities, Bodies and Subjectivities: Working-Class Men Negotiating Russia’s Post-Soviet Gender Order (Alexandrina Vanke)....Pages 195-218 The Inertia of Masculinity: Narratives of Creative Aspiration Among Arab-Australian Youth (Sherene Idriss, George Morgan)....Pages 219-241 Gender, Neoliberalism, and Embodiment: A Social Geography of Rural, Working-Class Masculinity in Southeast Kansas (Levi Gahman)....Pages 243-264 Working-Class Masculinities at the Nexus of Work, Family and Intimacy in the Age of Neoliberalism: Or, Are the Times Really A-Changin’? (Kirsty Whitman)....Pages 265-287 Driving Through Neoliberalism: Finnish Truck Drivers Constructing Respectable Male Worker Subjectivities (Timo Aho)....Pages 289-310 Masculinities and Health Inequalities Within Neoliberal Economies (Steve Robertson, Brendan Gough, Mark Robinson)....Pages 311-334 Back Matter ....Pages 335-338