Aprendiendo a trabajar

Cómo los chicos de la clase obrera consiguen trabajos de clase obrera

Aprendiendo a trabajar - Paul Willis - Akal
Publisher name: 
Akal
Year of publication: 
2017
Pages: 
304
Book size:
14x22cm
Weight: 399.7 g
Binding: 
Rustic

There is a recurring neoliberal myth that argues that every individual can become what is proposed; to want is power; that, in this world of infinite opportunities, being a winner is in each other's hands, regardless of their origins. But is this really the case?
This bright and enlightening book shows how the social and cultural coercive elements operated on the youth of the British working class. Seeking to understand why young people from working-class backgrounds left school at the first exchange and were engaged in low-skilled jobs, Paul Willis analyzed the trajectory of a group of boys from their last two school years to their first months at work. His adventures, decisions and paths, curiously, do not seem very different from those of today's youth of humble origins. Is it not, perhaps, that little or nothing has changed?
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Book: Aprendiendo a trabajar

ISBN: 9788446044987
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