ABSTRACT
THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE Men have grown up to identify with the public world of work. We have learned to be independent and self-sufficient. We have learned to go it alone and to do without the help of others. We have learned to identify with our work, even when it is not a matter of finding personal fulfilment but simply earning a wage. Class, racial and ethnic differences are obviously significant in men’s relationships to work, but male identity is in general an identity which is wrought within the public realm.
