Review
'This ploneering collection... casts an illuminating light on the individuals, groups and businesses involved in the transformation of modern cultures of consumption. With this volume, a new business history has arrived.' - Mary A. Yeager, UCLA; 'Should be required reading for anyone interested in the histories of gender, culture, and business.' - Wendy Gamber, Indiana University
Product Description
Negotiating the divide between "respectable 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.
About the Author
Roger Horowitz is the associate director of the Hagley Museum and Library's Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society in Wilmington, Delaware. He is author of Negro and White Unite: A Social History Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, and is editor of His and Hers: Gender Consumption, and Technology.
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