Linda McDowell 
Redundant Masculinities? [PDF ebook] 
Employment Change and White Working Class Youth

List of Plates.
List of Tables.
Preface.
1. Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class.
2. The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and Changing
Class and Gender Identities.
3. The Contemporary Crisis Of Masculinity: It’s Hard To Be(Come)
A Man or The Problem of/for Boys.
4. Living on The Edge: Marginal Lives In Cambridge and
Sheffield.
5. Leaving School: Pathways To Employment and Further
Education.
6. Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and Reluctant
Learners.
7. Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, The
Excluded and Escape Attempts.
8. Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities.
9. Conclusions: What Is To Be Done About Boys?
Postscript.
Appendix 1: Research Methodology.
Appendix 2: The Participants.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Linda Mc Dowell is Professor of Geography at University College, London. Her previous publications include Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City (Blackwells, 1997) and Gender, Identity and Place (1999).