Manhood on the Line : Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland /

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Grinding out new ideas of masculinity in the twentieth century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meyer, Stephen, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ford Motor Company.
Ford Motor Company > History.
Working class.
Women employees.
Sexual division of labor.
Discrimination in employment.
Automobile industry workers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Men's Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Personnel feminin > États-Unis.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Histoire.
Travailleurs de l'automobile > États-Unis > Histoire.
Discrimination in employment > United States.
Women employees > United States.
Sexual division of labor > United States.
Working class > United States > History.
Automobile industry workers > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: forms and meanings of working-class manhood
  • Lost manhood : mass production and auto worker masculinity
  • Reclaiming manhood : shop culture, industrial unionism, and the derogation of women, 1920s and 1930s
  • "Rats, finks, and stool pigeons" : the disreputable manhood of factory spies in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Fighting to provide : the battle to organize the Ford River Rouge Plant, 1930-1945
  • Fashioning dense masculine space : industrial unionism and altered shop-floor relations, 1935-1960s
  • The female "invasion" : women and the male workplace, 1940-1945
  • The challenge to white manhood: black men and women move to white male jobs, 1940-1945
  • Conclusion: the more things change, the more they stay the same
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index.

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