ABSTRACT
This chapter looks comparatively across the six longitudinal case studies, concentrating on changes in masculine subjectivities through a comparative analysis of the overlapping themes: status identity (composed of narrative, social and future identity); how the participants became agentic; their sense of belonging; and their experiences with struggle and isolation. I consider these themes to be dimensions of upwardly mobile working-class masculinities. The chapter concludes with a reflection on the fieldwork itself with a consideration of my own positionality.
