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Social Catastrophe and Social Trauma Amongst Unemployed Working Class Men in a Post-Industrial Community

  • This paper explores psychosocially young unemployed men’s resistance to work they describe as ‘embarrassing’ and ‘feminine’. The context is the closure of a steelworks in a town in the South Wales valleys, in which their resistance is mediated by father–son relationships that dictate what counts as proper manly work. In this study, young men, as well as their mothers and (where possible) their fathers, were interviewed. The interviews reveal a community suffering the effects of intergenerational trauma and riven with complex feelings about masculinity and femininity. These feelings are projected onto the young men, who feel bullied and shamed by their families, peers and others in the community because they are unable to find gender-appropriate work. The implications of these findings for un-derstanding youth male unemployment are considered.

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Author:Luis Jimenez
Parent Title (English):Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 17 / 2013, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 29-34.
Series (Serial Number):Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) (e17/2013d)
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2013
Release Date:2014/01/28
Volume:e17/2013d
Format:PDF-file to download
IdNo:Jimenez_L_2013
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
International Erich Fromm Society's Writings:Articles / Artikel
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