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Author Meyer, Stephen, 1942-

Title Manhood on the line ; working-class masculinities in the American heartland / Stephen Meyer.

Publication Info. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages).
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Series The working class in american history
Working class in American history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface -- Introduction: forms and meanings of working-class manhood -- Lost manhood : mass production and auto worker masculinity -- Reclaiming manhood : shop culture, industrial unionism, and the derogation of women, 1920s and 1930s -- "Rats, finks, and stool pigeons" : the disreputable manhood of factory spies in the 1920s and 1930s -- Fighting to provide : the battle to organize the Ford River Rouge Plant, 1930-1945 -- Fashioning dense masculine space : industrial unionism and altered shop-floor relations, 1935-1960s -- The female "invasion" : women and the male workplace, 1940-1945 -- The challenge to white manhood: black men and women move to white male jobs, 1940-1945 -- Conclusion: the more things change, the more they stay the same -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.
Summary Grinding out new ideas of masculinity in the twentieth century.
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Subject Ford Motor Company -- History.
Ford Motor Company.
History.
Automobile industry workers -- United States -- History.
Automobile industry workers.
United States.
Working class -- United States -- History.
Working class.
Sexual division of labor -- United States.
Sexual division of labor.
Women employees -- United States.
Women employees.
Discrimination in employment -- United States.
Discrimination in employment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Men's Studies.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Manhood on the line ; working-class masculinities in the American heartland Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2016. 9780252040054 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2015035920
ISBN 9780252098253 ebook
0252098250
9780252040054 cloth : alkaline paper
0252040058
9780252081545
0252081544