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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.

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Learning to Labor in New Times is intellectually thrilling, politically terrifying, and mobilizing. The book reveals the depths of oppression and, with standard Willis wisdom, the fault lines along which a new set of social revolutions are beginning to take form. Dolby and Dimitriadis have created a must read for educators, activists, scholars, policy makers, youth organizers, and those of us who theorize, research, organize, and rail against the long arm of racialized global capital as it consumes our young. <br>-Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center <br> In this rich collection, leading educational researchers show us the continuing relevance of Paul Willis's analytic power and ethnographic commitment to the lived struggles of young women and men, and everyone else. <br>-Jean Lave, University of California, Berkeley <br>

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Nadine Dolby is Assistant Professor of Education Foundations/Comparative and International Education at Northern Illinois University. Greg Dimitriadis is in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Paul Willis is Professor of Social and Cultural Ethnography at Keele University.

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