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Manhood on the line :

Meyer, Stephen, 1942-

Manhood on the line : working-class masculinities in the American heartland / Stephen Meyer. - 1 online resource - The working class in american history . - Working class in American history. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Grinding out new ideas of masculinity in the twentieth century.

9780252098253 0252098250

22573/ctt18j8cvr JSTOR

2015035920


Ford Motor Company--History.
Ford Motor Company.


Automobile industry workers--History.--United States
Working class--History.--United States
Sexual division of labor--United States.
Women employees--United States.
Discrimination in employment--United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Men's Studies.
Automobile industry workers.
Discrimination in employment.
Sexual division of labor.
Women employees.
Working class.


United States.


Electronic books.
History.

HD8039.A82 / M4659 2016eb

331.7/6292220973