Learning to Labor in New Times

Twenty-five years after the publication of Paul Willis's seminal text "Learning 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 Times" refocuses 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.

Learning to Labor in New Times foregrounds nine essays which re-examine the work of noted sociologist Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his seminal Learning to Labor, one of the most frequently cited and assigned texts in the cultural studies and social foundations of education.

Foreword, Stanley Aronowitz
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Learning to Labor in New Times: An Introduction, Nadine Dolby and Greg Dimitriadis
SECTION I: REFLECTING ON LEARNING TO LABOR
Chapter 2: Male Working Class Identities and Social Justice: A Reconsideration of Paul Willis's Learning to Labor in Light of Contemporary Research, Madeleine Arnot
Chapter 3: Paul Willis, Class Consciousness, and Critical Pedagogy: Toward a Socialist Future, Peter McLaren and Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale
Chapter 4: Between Good Sense and Bad Sense: Race, Class, and Learning from Learning to Labor, Michael W. Apple
Chapter 5: The "Lads" and the Cultural Topography of Race, Fazal Rizvi
SECTION II: LEARNING TO LABOR IN NEW TIMES
Chapter 6: Reordering Work and Destabilizing Masculinity, Jane Kenway and Anna Kraack
Chapter 7: Revisiting a 1980's "Moment of Critique": Class, Gender and the New Economy, Lois Weis
Chapter 8: Learning to Do Time: Willis's Model of Cultural Reproduction in an Era of Post-industrialism, Globalization, and Mass Incarceration, Kathleen Nolan and Jean Anyon
Chapter 9: Thinking about the Cultural Studies of Education in a Time of Recession: Learning to Labor and the Work of Aesthetics in Modern Life, Cameron McCarthy
SECTION III: Twenty-Five Years On: Old Books, New Times, Paul Willis
APPENDIX:"Centre" and Periphery-An Interview with Paul Willis, David Mills and Robert Gibb
Notes on Contributors
Index

Nadine Dolby is Assistant Professor of Education Foundations/Comparative and International Education at Northern Illinois University. Greg Dimitriadis is in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.Paul Willis is Professor of Social and Cultural Ethnography at Keele University.