Working construction
Subtitle: why white working-class men put themselves--and the labor movement--in harm's way
By: Kris Paap
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Construction workers -- United States -- Attitudes; Working class men -- United States -- Attitudes; Men, White -- United States -- Attitudes; Masculinity -- United States; Construction industry -- United States -- Safety measures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-226) and index
Table of contents: title: The political and economic relations of the construction industry; title: The social relations of production; title: "A bitch, a dyke, or a whore; title: " : how good men justify white and male dominance; title: Bodies at work : the social and physiological production of gender; title: "We're animals; title: and we're proud of it" : strategic enactments of white, working-class masculinities; title: The bodily costs of this social wage : occupational safety in the construction industry; title: The wages; title: and costs; title: of white working-class masculinities