Learning to Labor

Paul E. Willis
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Hailed by the New Society as the "best book on male working class youth," this classic work, first published in 1977, has been translated into several foreign languages and remains the authority in ethnographical studies.
Genres: SociologyEducationNonfictionAnthropologyEthnographyLaborAcademicPoliticsHistorySchool
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