M. Roper and J. Tosh (eds), Manful Assertions, London, Routledge, 1991.
Manful Assertions
Ibid.; L. Segal, Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men, London, Virago, 1997; R. W. Connell, The Men and the Boys, Oxford, Polity, 2000. See also P. Willis, ‘Shop floor culture, masculinity and the wage form', in J. Clarke, C. Critcher and R. Johnson (eds), Working Class Culture, London, Hutchison, 1979; M. Roper, Masculinity and the British Organisation Man Since 1945, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994; C. Cockburn, Brothers, London, Pluto, 1983; D. Wight, Workers not Wasters: Masculine Respectability, Consumption and Unemployment in Central Scotland, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1993; R. Evans, ‘You questioning my manhood, boy?', Arkleton Research Papers, no. 4, University of Aberdeen, 2000. For other partial exceptions, see S. Walby, Patriarchy at Work, Cambridge, Polity, 1986, and P. Summerfield, Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1998.
See D. Sabo and D. F. Gordon, Men's Health and Illness: Gender, Power and the Body, London, Sage, 1995; J. Cornwell, Hard-Earned Lives, London, Tavistock, 1984.
H. S. Schwartz, ‘Masculinity and the meaning of work: a response to Manichean feminism', Administration and Society, 27, August 1995, p. 6.
‘Masculinity and the meaning of work: a response to Manichean feminism’
Administration and Society
27
6
J. Watson, Male Bodies: Health, Culture and Identity, Buckingham, Open University Press, 2000, pp. 33-5.
Male Bodies: Health, Culture and Identity
33
5
See R. Johnston and A. McIvor, Lethal Work: A History of the Asbestos Tragedy in Scotland, East Linton, Tuckwell Press, 2000.
See B. Harrison, Not Only the Dangerous Trades, London, Taylor and Francis, 1996.
A. McArthur and H. Kingsley Long, No Mean City, London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1935.
No Mean City
D. Kirkwood, My Life of Revolt, London, George Harrap, 1935, p. 76.
My Life of Revolt
76
Glasgow girls had their versions of such behaviour, such as jumping down the final eight stairs in the tenement close. See M. Henderson, Finding Peggy, London, Corgi, 1994, p. 86.
Cited in M. Bellamy, The Shipbuilders, Edinburgh, Berlinn, 2000, p. 199.
A. Campbell, The Scottish Miners, vol. 1: Industry, Work and Community, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000, p. 238.
The Scottish Miners, vol. 1: Industry, Work and Community
238
A. Moffat, My Life with the Miners, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1965, pp. 16-17, 19.
My Life with the Miners
16
17
Drawing pictures and grafitti on ships ‘hulls, sometimes questioning fellow workers’ sexuality (e.g. ‘Big Dave: Big Girls Blouse’). See Bellamy, Shipbuilders, p. 139.
From E. Gaitens, Growing Up, London, Jonathan Cape, 1942. Cited in Bellamy, Shipbuilders, pp. 8-9.
R. Glasser, Growing Up in the Gorbals, London, Pan, 1987, p. 5.
Growing Up in the Gorbals
5
Cited in Bellamy, Shipbuilders, p. 129.
Bellamy, Shipbuilders, pp. 174-6. Walter Greenwood's hero in the novel Love on the Dole, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1933, recalled his transition from the ‘cissy’ world of office work to an engineering factory, where ‘great muscular men dwarfed to insignificance by the vastness of everything … Phew! But they were men’, p. 48.
G. Blake, The Shipbuilders, 1935, Edinburgh, B&W Publishing, 1993, pp. 157, 169.
The Shipbuilders, 1935
157
Roper, Masculinity, p. 117.
Forward, 18 May 1918, cited in I. McLean, The Legend of Red Clydeside, Edinburgh, John Donald, 1983, p. 151.
For a recent reappraisal of the authoritarian employer thesis on clydeside see R. Johnston, Clydeside Capital, 1870-1920, East Linton, Tuckwell Press, 2000.
E. Gordon, Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991; J. Smyth, Labour in Glasgow 1896-1936, East Linton, Tuckwell Press, 2000; A. McIvor, ‘Gender apartheid', in A. Dickson and J. Treble (eds), People and Society in Scotland, vol. 3, 1914-1990, Edinburgh, John Donald, 1992.
Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914
Moffat, My Life, p. 14. Bricks were tossed after a holiday. Custom had it that if the brick landed flat an extra day off was taken.
Jimmy Reid, 30 July 1971, cited in Bellamy, Shipbuilders, p. 199.
This complex and fluid relationship between workplace camaraderie and machismo competition merits further research and reflection.
Kirkwood, My Life, p. 251.
E. Gaitens, Dance of the Apprentices, 1948, Edinburgh, Canongate, 2001, p. 63.
Dance of the Apprentices, 1948
63
A. McKinlay, Making Ships, Making Men, Clydebank, Clydebank District Libraries, 1991, pp. 12-13.
Making Ships, Making Men
12
13
K. Mullen, A Healthy Balance: Glaswegian Men Talk about Health, Tobacco and Alcohol, Aldershot, Avebury, 1993, p. 177.
A Healthy Balance: Glaswegian Men Talk about Health, Tobacco and Alcohol
177
W. McIlvanney, The Kiln, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1996, p. 33.
The Kiln
33
Bellamy, Shipbuilders, p. 106.
R. Fraser, Work, London, Penguin, 1969, pp. 56-7.
Work
56
7
Greenwood, Love on the Dole, p. 49.
Gaitens, Dance of the Apprentices, p. 9. See also J. Bourke, Working Class Cultures, London, Routledge, 1983, pp. 130-1.
J. Barke, Major Operation, London, Collins, 1936, p. 41.
Major Operation
41
Connell, Men and the Boys, p. 188.
Report of HM Inspector of Mines (Scottish Division), London, HMSO, 1953, p. 5. See also Report of Inspector of Mines (Scottish), 1949, p. 36.
Report of Inspector of Mines (Scottish), 1952, p. 5.
Moffat, My Life, p. 239.
Johnston and McIvor, Lethal Work, pp. 99-104.
Johnston and McIvor, Lethal Work, p. 170-1.
Moffat, My Life, pp. 236-9. See also A. McIvor and R. Johnston, Miners’ Lung Aldershot, Ashgate, forthcoming, 2005.
See A. McIvor, A History of Work in Britain, 1880-1950, London, Palgrave, 2001, pp. 142-7; Johnston and McIvor, Lethal Work, pp. 158-72.
A History of Work in Britain, 1880-1950
142
7
Connell, Men and the Boys, p. 188.
Moffat, My Life, p. 232.
See Bourke, Working Class Cultures, pp. 132-3.
Mullen, A Healthy Balance, pp. 176-7.