Class and masculinity are connected – when industry changes, so does what it means to ‘be a man’

Class and masculinity are connected – when industry changes, so does what it means to ‘be a man’

Tero Vesalainen/ShutterstockOn July 3, I’ll be discussing Youth, Masculinity and the Political Divide at an event with The Conversation and Cumberland Lodge at Newcastle University (get your tickets here). Young people involved in the panel have brought up class and the decline of industry as topics for discussion. This is particularly fitting, given my ongoing PhD research exploring masculinity and the contemporary lives of working-class men in…