Manhood on the line : working-class masculinities in the American heartland / Stephen Meyer.
Material type: TextSeries: Working class in American historyPublisher: Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780252098253
- 0252098250
- Ford Motor Company -- History
- Ford Motor Company
- Automobile industry workers -- United States -- History
- Working class -- United States -- History
- 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
- 331.7/6292220973 23
- HD8039.A82 M4659 2016eb
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.
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