This study examines notions of manliness among railway navvies from Norrbotten during the period from the 1880s to 1937. Navvy songs and poems are used in order to answer the purpose of this thesis. The method is qualitative and the paper should be viewed as descriptive utilizing a partly untried material as basis for investigation. The results are compared with previous research concerning both working class and middle class and there are both similarities and differences with previous research. The navvies wanted to describe themselves as persons who were able to drink alcohol in large amounts. However this fact was mainly valid for the older navvys which indicates a difference with previous research. The navvies used a rough language, were happy andliked freedom, they emphasized manual labour and were persistent and patriotic.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-172285 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Pihl, Per-Jonas |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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