A collection of essays which re-examine the work of Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his seminal 'Learning to Labor'. They examine the relationship between schooling and work, the lives of working class youth, the role of school as productive site of struggle and other important themes.

Twenty-five years after the publication of Paul Willis' seminal text Learning to Labor, Nadine Dolby and Greg Dimitriadis have gathered together an internationally renowned group of scholars to reflect on the meaning and influence of what many consider to be the most influential book in critical education and cultural studies of our time. Learning to Labor in New Times will refocus attention on the themes that have been central to Willis' work: the relationship between schooling and work; the lives of working class youth; the role of the school as a productive site of struggle; the significance of common culture in the lives of young people; and the continuing importance of ethnography as a research methodology.

Foreword, Stanley Aronowitz Acknowledgements 1: Learning to Labor in New Times: An Introduction, Nadine Dolby and Greg Dimitriadis SECTION I: REFLECTING ON LEARNING TO LABOR 2: Male Working Class Identities and Social Justice: A Reconsideration of Paul Willis's Learning to Labor in Light of Contemporary Research, Madeleine Arnot 3: Paul Willis, Class Consciousness, and Critical Pedagogy: Toward a Socialist Future, Peter McLaren and Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale 4: Between Good Sense and Bad Sense: Race, Class, and Learning from Learning to Labor, Michael W. Apple 5: The "Lads" and the Cultural Topography of Race, Fazal Rizvi SECTION II: LEARNING TO LABOR IN NEW TIMES 6: Reordering Work and Destabilizing Masculinity, Jane Kenway and Anna Kraack 7: Revisiting a 1980's "Moment of Critique": Class, Gender and the New Economy, Lois Weis 8: Learning to Do Time: Willis's Model of Cultural Reproduction in an Era of Post-industrialism, Globalization, and Mass Incarceration, Kathleen Nolan and Jean Anyon 9: Thinking about the Cultural Studies of Education in a Time of Recession: Learning to Labor and the Work of Aesthetics in Modern Life, Cameron McCarthy SECTION III: Twenty-Five Years On: Old Books, New Times, Paul Willis APPENDIX: "Centre" and Periphery-An Interview with Paul Willis, David Mills and Robert Gibb Notes on Contributors