The focus on gender in and around the process of deindustrialisation is a very welcome development. The academic attention paid to the decline of male dominated places of work in part can be seen as a continuation of industrial/work sociology's longstanding interest in working-class industrial workers. It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that, notwithstanding a critical gendered account of deindustrialization that pays more attention to women, there remains a need to understand more fully the subtle processes of male gender construction within industrial work. Arguably what has not been fully accounted for are the subtle, complex, and varied ways in which younger males became fully fledged men through a shopfloor ritual, social and cultural transmission, and rites of passage. The article makes two main points. Firstly, it reflects on the notion of care in work and the idea of a moral order of the workplace wherein the workplace acted as an extended caring family. I want to think about this social form through my own research as well as that of other scholars in a variety of industrial workplaces, and also by drawing on workplace autobiography. Secondly, the piece highlights the continued attraction of an older one-dimensional image of male industrial work. In studying this aspect of workplace masculinity, we might be better placed to think about the nature of gendered loss associated with mass industrial closure over time and how in-work socialization patterns have been dramatically transformed. In the process this account will add great depth to our understanding of deindustrialization and industrial culture more generally.

在去工业化过程中及其周围对性别的关注是一个非常受欢迎的发展。学术界对男性主导工作场所衰落的关注在一定程度上可以被视为工业/工作社会学对工人阶级产业工人长期兴趣的延续。尽管对去工业化的批判性性别解释更加关注女性，但仍然需要更全面地了解工业工作中男性性别建构的微妙过程，这似乎违反直觉。可以说，尚未完全解释的是年轻男性通过车间仪式、社会和文化传播以及成人仪式成为羽翼丰满的男人的微妙、复杂和多样的方式。文章提出了两个要点。首先，它反思了工作中的关爱理念和工作场所的道德秩序理念，其中工作场所充当了一个大家庭的关爱。我想通过我自己以及其他学者在各种工业工作场所的研究以及借鉴工作场所自传来思考这种社会形式。其次，该作品强调了男性工业工作的旧一维形象的持续吸引力。在研究职场男性气质的这一方面时，我们可能会更好地思考随着时间的推移与大规模工业倒闭相关的性别丧失的本质，以及工作中的社交模式如何发生巨大转变。在此过程中，这一叙述将极大地加深我们对去工业化和工业文化的更广泛的理解。