Learning to Labor in New Times foregrounds nine essays which re-examine the work of noted sociologist Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his seminal Learning to Labor, one of the most frequently cited and assigned texts in the cultural studies and social foundations of education.
Learning to Labor in New Times foregrounds nine essays which re-examine the work of noted sociologist Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his seminal Learning to Labor, one of the most frequently cited and assigned texts in the cultural studies and social foundations of education.
"Learning to Labor in New Times is intellectually thrilling, politically terrifying, and mobilizing. The book reveals the depths of oppression and, with standard Willis wisdom, the fault lines along which a new set of social revolutions are beginning to take form. Dolby and Dimitriadis have created a must read for educators, activists, scholars, policy makers, youth organizers, and those of us who theorize, research, organize, and rail against the long arm of racialized global capital as it consumes our young." -- Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center
"In this rich collection, leading educational researchers show us the continuing relevance of Paul Willis's analytic power and ethnographic commitment to the lived struggles of young women and men, and everyone else." -- Jean Lave, University of California, Berkeley
"Learning to Labor in New Times is a fine tribute to one of the most important achievements in the history of educational and ethnographic research." David Bills and Su Euk Park, Educational Studies, 43: 263-267, 2008
Nadine Dolby is Assistant Professor of Education Foundations/Comparative and International Education at Northern Illinois University.
Greg Dimitriadis is in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
Paul Willis is Professor of Social and Cultural Ethnography at Keele University.