This book explores the ways in which neoliberal capitalism
has reshaped the lives of working-class men around the world. It focuses on the
effects of employment change and of new forms of governmentality on men’s experiences
of both public and private life. The book presents a range of international
studies―from the US, UK, and Australia to Western and Northern Europe, Russia,
and Nigeria―that move beyond discourses positing a ‘masculinity crisis’ or
pathologizing working-class men. Instead, the authors look at the active ways
men have dealt with forms of economic and symbolic marginalization and the
barriers they have faced in doing so. While the focus of the volume is
employment change, it covers a range of topics from consumption and leisure to
education and family.
- Publisher's description
