Engineer, Mechanic or Carpenter? Boys' Transitions to Work in the 1960s

Autor/inn/en	Goodwin, John; O'Connor, Henrietta
Titel	Engineer, Mechanic or Carpenter? Boys' Transitions to Work in the 1960s
Quelle	In: Journal of Education & Work, 18 (2005) 4, S.451-471 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
Schlagwörter	Males; Education Work Relationship; Foreign Countries; Sexual Identity; Gender Differences; Early School Leavers; Occupational Aspiration; Masculinity; Labor Market; United Kingdom (Leicester) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Geschlechterkonflikt; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Männlichkeit; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt
Abstract	In this paper, the authors seek to examine the gendered nature of boys' school to work transitions for a group of young male workers entering employment for the first time in the 1960s. They argue that such an enquiry is important because past studies of transitions have not problematised boys school to work transitions in terms of gender. Moreover, where gender has been employed as an analytical category, it has been used as shorthand to describe the experiences of women. They drew upon data from Norbert Elias's largely unknown "Adjustment of young workers to work situations and adult roles" project to examine the boys' experiences of the transition process in terms of reflections on school, thinking about work, finding and adjusting to work and thinking about the future. Analysis of these data reveals that young males do experience the transition to work as a gendered process and paid employment confirms aspects of their male identity. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10