Manhood on the line : working-class masculinities in the American heartland / Stephen Meyer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction: forms and meanings of working-class manhood -- Lost manhood : mass production and auto worker masculinity -- Reclaiming manhood : shop culture, industrial unionism, and the derogation of women, 1920s and 1930s -- "Rats, finks, and stool pigeons" : the disreputable manhood of factory spies in the 1920s and 1930s -- Fighting to provide : the battle to organize the Ford River Rouge Plant, 1930-1945 -- Fashioning dense masculine space : industrial unionism and altered shop-floor relations, 1935-1960s -- The female "invasion" : women and the male workplace, 1940-1945 -- The challenge to white manhood: black men and women move to white male jobs, 1940-1945 -- Conclusion: the more things change, the more they stay the same -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.

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Grinding out new ideas of masculinity in the twentieth century.

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