Routledge Critical Dictionary of Global Economics or Boys and Their Toys

Routledge Critical Dictionary of Global Economics

Author: Robert Beynon

Combining the in-depth background coverage of an encyclopedia, with the quick look-up convenience of a dictionary, this new work is an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with international economics.

The only reference work to cover the latest theories in the vital field of global economics, The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Global Economics explores new economic thought from A-Z, and offers full-length survey discussions by the most respected experts in the field. Beginning and advanced students will be certain to want a copy of this authoritative, yet accessible new work.

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Boys and Their Toys: Masculinity, Class and Technology in America

Author: Roger Horowitz

Our second volume with the Hagley Museum and Library 's Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Boys and Their Toys is a collection of essays that places masculinity and work at the core of class formation. Negotiating the divide betweenrespectable manhood and rough manhood this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing.

This groundbreaking collection begins new insights into the complexities of masculinity, and its relationship to class and society. It's a fresh and original exploration of gender, business, and culture that is sure to appeal to readers of Gail Bederman and Michael Kimmell.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1	Work, Play, and Power: Masculine Culture on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1930-1960	13
2	"To Make Men out of Crude Material": Work Culture, Manhood, and Unionism in the Railroad Running Trades, c. 1870-1900	33
3	"Now That We Have Girls in the Office": Clerical Work, Masculinity, and the Refashioning of Gender for a Bureaucratic Age	55
4	Rereading Man's Conquest of Nature: Skill, Myths, and the Historical Construction of Masculinity in Western Extractive Industries	91
5	"Building Better Men": The CCC Boy and the Changing Social Ideal of Manliness	111
6	Boys and Their Toys: The Fisher Body Craftman's Guild, 1930-1968, and the Making of a Male Technical Domain	139
7	Masculine Guidance: Boys, Men, and Newspapers, 1930-1939	169
8	Everyday Peter Pans: Work, Manhood, and Consumption in Urban America, 1900-1930	199
9	Masculinity, the Auto Racing Fraternity, and the Technological Sublime: The Pit Stop As a Celebration of Social Roles	229
10	Rights of Men, Rites of Passage: Hunting and Masculinity at Reo Motors of Lansing, Michigan, 1945-1975	251
	Contributors	273
	Permissions Acknowledgments	275
	Index	277