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Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail—the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one's dignity while doing hard work in hard world.| Cover Title Contents Preface Introduction: Forms and Meanings of Working-Class Manhood 1 Lost Manhood: Mass Production and Auto Worker Masculinity 2 Reclaiming Manhood: Shop Culture, Industrial Unionism, and the Derogation of Women, 1920s and 19 3 "Rats, Finks, and Stool Pigeons": The Disreputable Manhood of Factory Spies in the 1920s and 193 4 Fighting to Provide: The Battle

Author

Stephen Meyer; Ford Motor Company

Publisher

Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252040054

Subjects

History, Management, Science