Learning to Labor? Reconsider Schooling and Capitalism in the 21st Century From a Post-marxist Perspective

This article develops a theoretical framework to understand the relationship between schooling and capitalism in the present from a Post-Marxist perspective, critically reconsidering how students engage with schooling and labor in the context of 21st-century capitalism. Drawing on Paul Willis’s classical Marxist ethnographic study, Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs,