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Kris Paap, Working Construction: Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves--And the Labor Movement--In Harm's Way.(Book review)
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Labour/Le Travail
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- Braedley, Susan
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Kris Paap, Working Construction: Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves--And the Labor Movement--In Harm's Way (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press 2006)
IN THIS BOOK, Kris Paap makes a bold and useful contribution to understandings of the intertwining relations of gender, race, class and labour processes in capitalist economies. Based upon her two and a half year foray into construction trades as a unionized carpentry apprentice in the American Midwest, this volume traces the ways in which a hierarchy of gender, race, and class is produced and maintained through the processes and relations of construction work, not only among workers and employers, but within ...