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Learning to Labor

Paul Willis

Recommended by Seth Godin (1)

2012

Ethnographic research from the 1970s that makes and proves a startling thesis: the very structure of school ends up establishing the Òus and themÓ mentality that alienates most students from authority and sets them up to be unhappy wage slaves instead of productive leaders.

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