ABSTRACT
In the sociology of youth there has been a long-standing concern to document the connectedness between 'ideologies of traditional masculinity the institution of waged labour and the process of working class culture in contemporary society' (Haywood and Mac An Ghaill, 1996, p. 22). The same prescription about classreproduction is also to be found, but to a lesser extent, in relation to young women. While the studies which traced this connectedness in respect of young workingclass women suggested that they recognized the domestic and labour market oppressions which their mothers, aunts and older sisters were tied up in, nevertheless, they also experienced early adulthood as an expression of a clearly gendered cultural and labour market-reproduction (McRobbie and Nava, 1984; Griffin 1985).
