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INDUSTRY FORGING MASCULINITY: “TOUGH MEN”, HARD LABOUR AND IDENTITY

Andrea Matošević orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-8602-6353 ; Department of Italian Language Studies, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Pula


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Abstract

In a wide range of virilities, male identities and their modern historical representations that start with a “chivalrous” attitude, as George L. Mosse puts it, one of them is unique – not only because it excludes “classical” physical aesthetics, so important in forming many male identity stereotypes, but also because it exists alongside and “in opposition to” other expressions of masculinity. Hard-working men in a heavy industry milieu – e.g. shipyards, mines, construction or metallurgy, have developed a somewhat different attitude towards unhealthy, difficult and often very poorly paid jobs which created the very core of their masculine identity. That is why it must be seen as part of Gramsci’s propulsive concept of popular culture opposing the
hegemonic culture which, according to the author, is “born inside the factories”; i.e. these “tough” men (and often women e.g. Stakhanovism, Shock work) were the industrial “version” of “progressive folklore”.

Keywords

industry; manliness; hypervirility; work

Hrčak ID:

53537

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/53537

Publication date:

15.6.2010.

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