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Redundancy: How It Feels - Beatrix Campbell

A chapter from Beatrix Campbell's 1984 book Wigan Pier Revisited on redundancy and masculinity.

Submitted by wojtek on May 15, 2012
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While ideas about femininity have been reformed - not without a struggle - so that women are no longer believed to be defeminised by working for wages, masculinity has remained relatively unreconstructed. Men's tragedy is that unemployment makes them feel unmanned.
Beatrix Campbell
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