Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

A classic ethnography of English working-class boys showing how school culture reproduces class.

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Seth Godin: “Ethnographic research from the 1970s that makes and proves a startling thesis: the very structure of school ends up establishing the “us and them” mentality that alienates most students from authority and sets them up to be unhappy wage slaves instead of productive leaders.”