Foreword to the Morningside Edition Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Part I. Ethnography 2. Elements of a Culture 3. Class and Institutional Form of Culture 4. Labour Power, Culture, Class and Institution Part II. Analysis 5. Penetrations 6. Limitations 7. The Role of Ideology 8. Notes Towards a Theory of Cultural Forms and Social Reproduction 9. Monday Morning and the Millennium Appendix Afterword to the Morningside Edition Notes Index
Paul Willis is a professor in the faculty of education at Beijing Normal University. His books include The Ethnographic Imagination (2000), Moving Culture (1990), and Profane Culture (1978).
A remarkable achievement...the best book on male working class youth since Whyte's Street Corner Society. -- David H. Hargreaves New Society It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Learning to Labor. It has been widely cited as a foundational text in contemporary ethnography, cultural studies, sociology, and critical theory. -- Ken McGrew Review of Educational Research One of the most enduring analyses of resistance to schooling. -- Mark McFadden and Geoff Munns British Journal of Sociology of Education The value of this book is in the flexibility of cultural examinations and the subtle nature of schooling... Investigations of other socioeconomic trade-offs in schools and job settings will profit greatly from this book. -- Edgar Litt Comparative Education Review Offers new empirical grounding for a theory of culturally based resistance. -- Ron Eyerman Theory and Society An important contribution to the study of class, culture, schooling, and social reproduction. -- Philip Wexler Contemporary Sociology A much broader contribution to a Marxist theory of culture and cultural reproduction, and to issues surrounding the relation between capitalism and patriarchy -- Amy Wharton The Insurgent Sociologist Willis' approach has had a profound effect on Marxist analyses within the sociology of education. -- Liz Gordon British Journal of Sociology of Education
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