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 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 |
| Title | Working Construction |
| Author | Kris Paap |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 2006-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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