ABSTRACT
Negotiating the divide between "respectable manhood" and "rough manhood" this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|98 pages
Manhood in the Workplace
chapter |22 pages
“To Make Men out of Crude Material”
Work Culture, Manhood, and Unionism in the Railroad Running Trades, c. 1870–1900
chapter |36 pages
“Now That We Have Girls in the Office”
Clerical Work, Masculinity, and the Refashioning of Gender for a Bureaucratic Age
chapter |18 pages
Rereading Man's Conquest of Nature
Skill, Myths, and the Historical Construction of Masculinity in Western Extractive Industries
part |87 pages
Learning to Be Men
chapter |30 pages
Boys and Their Toys
The Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild, 1930–1968, and the Making of a Male Technical Domain
part 3|74 pages
Manhood at Play
chapter |22 pages
Masculinity, the Auto Racing Fraternity, and the Technological Sublime
The Pit Stop As a Celebration of Social Roles
chapter |20 pages
Rights of Men, Rites of Passage
Hunting and Masculinity at Reo Motors of Lansing, Michigan, 1945–1975
