Manhood on the line ; working-class masculinities in the American heartland [electronic resource] /Stephen Meyer.
By: Meyer, Stephen.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: BookSeries: The working class in american history.Publisher: Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780252098253; 0252098250.Subject(s): Sexual division of labor -- United States | Working class -- United States -- History | Automobile industry workers -- United States -- History | Ford Motor Company -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available: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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