 The 1981 Morningside edition | |
| Author | Paul Willis |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Sociology |
| Published | 1977 |
| Publisher | Saxon House (UK), Columbia University Press (US) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| ISBN | 0-231-05357-6 |
Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs is a 1977 book on education, written by British social scientist and cultural theorist Paul Willis. A Columbia University Press edition, titled the "Morningside Edition," was published in the United States shortly after its reception.[1]
Willis's first major book, Learning to Labour relates the findings of his ethnographic study of working-class boys at a secondary school in England. In it, Willis attempts to explain the role of youths' culture and socialization as mediums by which schools route working-class students into working-class jobs. Stanley Aronowitz, in the preface to the Morningside edition, hails the book as a key text in Marxist social reproduction theory about education, advancing previous work in education studies by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis's Schooling in Capitalist America, as well as work by Michael Apple and John Dewey.[1]
Learning to Labour has been recognized by sociologists, critical pedagogues, and researchers in education studies as a landmark study of schooling and culture, and is one of the most cited sociological texts in education studies.[2][3]
- ^ a b Willis, Paul (1981). Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-05357-6.
- ^ Dolby, Nadine; Dimitriadis, Greg (2004). "Learning to Labor in New Times: An Introduction". In Dolby, Nadine; Dimitriadis, Greg (eds.). Learning to Labor in New Times. New York, NY: Routledge Falmer. pp. 1–2. ISBN 0-415-94854-1.
- ^ Arnot, Madeleine. "Male Working-Class Identities and Social Justice: A Reconsideration of Paul Willis's Learning to Labor in Light of Contemporary Research." Learning to Labor in New Times. pp. 17.