Working Construction by Kris Paap

Working Construction by Kris Paap

Kris Paap worked for nearly three years as a carpenter's apprentice on a variety of jobsites, closely observing her colleagues' habits, expressions, and attitudes. As a woman in an overwhelmingly male-and stereotypically macho-profession, Paap uses...

"I don't think I've ever seen a book that so carefully understood how issues of race, class, and gender are affected by the collapse of union protection and the increased vulnerability of workersIn a brilliant insight, Kris Paap regards workers' heightened awareness of masculinity and whiteness as a kind of compensation for de-skilling, loss of union protection, and increased vulnerability." -- Michael S. Kimmel, State University of New York at Stony Brook, author of Manhood in America
"Kris Paap combines a rich ethnographic account of a personal work experience with sociological insight about gender, race, class, and power. Paap's book makes an original and valuable contribution to our understanding of how worksites and industry practices help to produce a certain type of working-class masculinity." -- Mary Margaret Fonow, Director of Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University

Kris Paap is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University and is on the faculty at the SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780801472862
ISBN 10	0801472865
Titel	Working Construction
Autor	Kris Paap
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-05-23
Seitenanzahl	272
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