ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to uncover some of the ways in which apprenticeship has changed through examining the differences and similarities between the learning experiences of indentured and modern apprentices. It shows that, although their experiences differ, the modern apprentices develop a racing habitus that is embodied in a very similar way to that of indentured apprentices. The chapter analyses the process of becoming a modern apprentice, showing how trainees become racing 'lads', embodying a habitus and a bodily hexis reflective of a racing habitus. It draws on fieldwork at the British Racing School (BRS). The BRS is more like an educational establishment than a workplace and the trainees internalise class and gender relations in different way from the indentured apprentices. The class and gender profile of the group was quite different from that of indentured apprentices. The trainees' reasons for doing the course differ from those given by indentured apprentices for whom, as working-class 'boys', there were few job opportunities.
