The Full Monty is a British comedy in which a group of unemployed steelworkers decide to form an amateur male strip show to earn money. Behind the humour it explores unemployment, masculinity and the challenges of reinventing oneself after industrial decline.

Use in class

In teaching it can be used for entrepreneurship, social enterprise and organisational behaviour. It invites discussion of opportunity creation under constraint, team formation, stigma, motivation and community level effects of job loss, making it particularly relevant to labour and regional development topics.

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