The Delinquent Chooses to Become a Manual Laborer Himself

I would like to introduce a book titled "Learning to Labour" by Paul Willis

This research book is considered a must-read for anyone involved in education.

Through interviews and field research with the working class, the book examines why class is fixed in British class society and why those at the bottom are stuck there.

According to the book's research, working-class children willingly choose to become factory workers and other manual laborers.

The reasons for this are as follows.

1. There is a culture in which physical labor is a symbol of masculinity.

Therefore, they voluntarily become manual laborers.

1. They want to enjoy their youth without being tied down by studies and tests.

Therefore, they leave their studies and school and become uneducated workers.

1. I want to live freely without being bound by the rules of society.

Therefore, they commit crimes.

It is not hard to understand their motives, isn't it? We, too, must have thought about these things in our youth, even if we did not act on them.

And if the parents of children who have thought about this are manual laborers, the parents may educate their children to affirm their position, and the children may go that way.

Of course, the immobilization of class is also caused by the upper privileged class monopolizing and exploiting wealth, though.

References

• Learning to Labour by Paul Willis