Author : Simon J. Charlesworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521659154
This book addresses the personal effects of poverty, social deprivation and inequality using a phenomenological approach.
Author : Lars Meier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429857624
Based on qualitative research among industrial workers in a region that has undergone deindustrialisation and transformation to a service-based economy, this book examines the loss of status among former manual labourers. Focus lies on their emotional experiences, nostalgic memories, hauntings from the past and attachments to their former places of work, to transformed neighbourhoods, as well as to public space. Against this background the book explores the continued importance of class as workers attempt to manage the declining recognition of their skills and a loss of power in an "established-outsider figuration". A study of the transformation of everyday life and social positions wrought by changes in the social structure, in urban landscapes and in the "structures of feeling", this examination of the dynamic of social identity will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and geography with interests in post-industrial societies, social inequality, class and social identity.
Author : Ben Clarke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319963104
This book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit. The volume draws together new and established scholars in the field, whose intersectional analyses use postcolonial and feminist ideas, amongst others, to explore key theoretical approaches to working-class writing and discuss works by a range of authors, including Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Jack Hilton, Mulk Raj Anand, Simon Blumenfeld, Pat Barker, Gordon Burn, and Zadie Smith. A key informing argument is not only that working-class writing shows ‘working class’ to be a diverse and dynamic rather than monolithic category, but also that a greater critical attention to class, and the working class in particular, extends both the methods and objects of literary studies. This collection will appeal to students, scholars and academics interested in working-class writing and the need to diversify the curriculum.
Author : Michael Pierse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107149681
"Michael Pierse is Lecturer in Irish literature at Queen's University Belfast. His research mainly explores the writing and cultural production of Irish working-class life. Over recent years this work has expanded into new multidisciplinary themes and international contexts, including the study of festivals, digital methodologies in public humanities and theatre-as-research practices. Michael has contributed to a range of national and international publications, is the author of Writing Ireland's Working Class: Dublin after O'Casey (2011), and has been awarded several Arts and Humanities Research Council awards and the Vice Chancellor's Award at Queen's"--
Author : Carolyn Steedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1107046211
Unique and fascinating account of English working-class life at the turn of the nineteenth century by celebrated historian Carolyn Steedman.
Author : Oliver Betts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2024-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1040183891
Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class – especially discussion of the working class – to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate. This introductory volume shows how the history of the working class has, is, and can be researched, written, and represented. The book is structured in three parts: perspective, context, and application. Each offers an introduction to both classic historiography and new ideas and methodologies. With chapters covering a span of the years c.1750–present, the book focuses on three essential questions: What is working-class history and what should it become? What can a focus on working-class history reveal? What are the possibilities of this research in the university classroom, the heritage world, and beyond? Doing Working-Class History will appeal to students and scholars of working-class history, whether relative newcomers to the field or veteran researchers interested in new approaches and material. It will also be of interest to local and family historians, museum and heritage professionals, and general readers.
Author : Sam Taylor Hill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
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ISBN : 3031592506
Author : Ben Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526130300
This book maps how working class life was transformed in England in the middle years of the twentieth century. National trends in employment, welfare and living standards are illuminated via a focus on Brighton, providing valuable new perspectives of class and community formation. Based on fresh archival research, life histories and contemporary social surveys, the book historicises important cultural and community studies which moulded popular perceptions of class and social change in the post-war period. It shows how council housing, slum clearance and demographic trends impacted on working-class families and communities. While suburbanisation transformed home life, leisure and patterns of association, there were important continuities in terms of material poverty, social networks and cultural practices. This book will be essential reading for academics and students researching modern and contemporary social and cultural history, sociology, cultural studies and human geography.
Author : Haru Takiuchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319553909
This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children’s literature through their representations of working-class life and culture. Aidan Chambers, Alan Garner and Robert Westall were examples of what Richard Hoggart termed ‘scholarship boys’: working-class individuals who were educated out of their class through grammar school education. This book highlights the role these writers played in changing the publishing and reviewing practices of the British children's literature industry while offering new readings of their novels featuring scholarship boys. As well as drawing on the work of Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu, and referring to studies of scholarship boys in the fields of social science and education, this book also explores personal interviews and previously-unseen archival materials. Yielding significant insights on British children’s literature of the period, this book will be of particular interest to scholars and students in the fields of children’s and working-class literature and of British popular culture.
Author : Yvette Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2007-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230592384
This is an original study of women self-identified as working-class and lesbian, showing the significance of class and sexuality in their biographies, everyday lives and identities. It provides insight, a critique of queer theory and an empirical interrogation of the embodied, spatial and material intersection of class and sexuality.
