Manhood on the Line (eBook, ePUB)
Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland
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In the early twentieth century, industrialization upended long-entrenched notions of gender and work identity in working-class men. They responded by creating new identities that blended a rough masculinity of carousing and hard drinking with a respectable masculinity that aspired to join the nascent blue-collar middle class. Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth-century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and reviv...
In the early twentieth century, industrialization upended long-entrenched notions of gender and work identity in working-class men. They responded by creating new identities that blended a rough masculinity of carousing and hard drinking with a respectable masculinity that aspired to join the nascent blue-collar middle class. Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth-century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one's dignity while doing hard work in hard world.
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