Boys and their toys? : masculinity, technology, and class in America

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Boys and their toys? : masculinity, technology, and class in America

edited by Roger Horowitz

(Hagley perspectives on business and culture)

Routledge, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Negotiating the divide between "respectable manhood" and "rough manhood" this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Roger Horowitz Part 1: Manhood in the Workplace 1. Work, Play and Power: Masculine Culture on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1930-1960, Stephen Meyer 2. To Make Men out of Crude Material: Work Culture, Manhood and Unionism in the Railroad Running Trades, c. 1870-1900, Paul Michel Taillon 3. Now That We have Girls in the Office: Clerical Work, Masculinity and the Refashioning of Gender for a Bureaucratic Age, Janet F. Davidson 4. Rereading Man's Conquest of Nature: Skill, Myths and the Historical Construction of Masculinity in Western Extractive Industries, Nancy Quam-Wickham Part 2: Learning to Be Men 5. Building Better Men: The CCC Boy and the Changing Social Ideal of Manliness, Jeffrey Ryan Suzik 6. Boys and Their Toys: The Fischer Body Craftman's Guild, 1930-1968, and the Making of a Male Technical Domain, Ruth Oldenziel 7. Masculine Guidance: Boys, Men and Newspapers, 1930-1939, Todd Alexander Postol Part 3: Manhood at Play 8. Everyday Peter Pans: Work, Manhood and Consumption in Urban America, 1900-1930, Woody Register 9. Masculinity, the Auto Racing Fraternity and the Technological Sublime: The Pit Stop as a Celebration of Social Roles, Ben A. Shackleford 10. Rights of Men, Rites of Passage: Hunting and Masculinity at Reo Motors of Lansing, Michigan, 1945-1975, Lisa Fine Contributors Permissions Acknowledgments Index

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