working class history - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness

Book by Stanley Aronowitz; Duke University Press, 1992

Subjects:

Class consciousness--United States--History, Labor unions--United States--History, Working class--United States--History

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...that today dominates American Working Class History as a discursive practice...totalizations which tend to reduce working class history to its economic, political...historians. As we shall see, recent working class history remains rooted in class discourse...
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Fighting Words: Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England

Book by Marc W. Steinberg; Cornell University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Social Conflict--England--History--19th Century, Working Class--England--History--19th Century

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...paper 1. Working class--England--History--19th century...radical social history, he felt...argued that class consciousness...fissures among working people; it...critics of class formation...provided working people with...review of the history, however...
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The Working Class in Britain, 1850-1939

Book by John Benson; Longman, 1989

Subjects:

Working Class--Great Britain--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...me to write a general history of the working class. I should also like to...was synonymous with the history of the working class, they sought to recount...now examining the social history of the working class and not primarily...
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A World Still to Win: The Reconstruction of the Post-War Working Class

Book by Trevor Blackwell, Jeremy Seabrook; Faber & Faber, 1985

Subjects:

Great Britain--Economic Conditions--20th Century, Working Class--Great Britain--History--20th Century

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...first formative phase of working-class history, so well described by Edward...long-term recurring theme of working-class history has been the alternation...is not the least irony of working-class history that trade unionism needs...
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Class Matters: 'Working-Class' Women's Perspectives on Social Class

Book by Pat Mahony, Christine Zmroczek; Taylor & Francis, 1997

Subjects:

Feminist Theory--Great Britain, Great Britain--Social Conditions, Social Classes--Great Britain, Women--Education--Great Britain, Women--Employment--Great Britain, Working Class Women--Great Britain--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

This text focuses on the theory of class as it relates to women. It debates questions such as: how do women define themselves in terms of social class and why?; is definition important or not?; what part does education play in our understanding of class?; and how does class affect relationships?

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Teaching Class: Labor and Working-Class History in the U.S. Survey

Journal article by Randi Storch; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. 29, 2004

Subjects:

Labor movement--Study and teaching, Proletariat--History, United States history--Study and teaching, Working class in television--History, Working class--History

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

Teaching Class: Labor and Working-Class History in the U.S. Survey...to find that U.S. labor and working-class history was an actual course being...an inkling that labor and working-class history is a dynamic field of interest...
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"Moving On," Men and the Changing Character of Interwar Working-Class Neighborhoods: From the Files of the Manchester and Liverpool City Police

Journal article by Joanne Klein; Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, 2004

Subjects:

Proletariat--History, Proletariat--Research, Working class in television--History, Working class in television--Research, Working class--History, Working class--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...A Womans Place: An Oral History of Working Class Women 1890-1940, (Oxford...International Labor and Working Class History, 27 (Spring 1985): 39-59...Hooligans or Rebels?: An Oral History of Working-class Childhood and Youth, 1889-1939...
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GENDER AND WORKING CLASS IDENTITY IN BRITAIN DURING THE 1950s

Journal article by Stephen Brooke; Journal of Social History, Vol. 34, 2001

Subjects:

Employment discrimination--Social aspects, Sex discrimination against women--1950, Working class--History, Working mothers--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...considerable complexity in the history of working class identity in Britain, a...and R. Johnson (editors), Working-Class Culture: Studies in History and Theory (New York, 1979...International Labor and Working Class History 38 (1990):3-28. (53...
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Writing Modern Selves: Literacy and the French Working Class in the Early Nineteenth Century

Journal article by Steven E. Rowe; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2006

Subjects:

Literacy--France, Literacy--History, Proletariat--History, Social history--19th century AD, Social sciences and history--19th century AD, Working class in television--History, Working class--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...cannot dismiss the working-class literacy practices...explore the broader history of literacy and...Journal of Social History who read various...several studies of working-class autobiography...International Labor and Working Class History 24 (1983): 1-16...
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Alienation and Resistance: New Possibilities for Working-Class Formation

Journal article by Margaret Zamudio; Social Justice, Vol. 31, 2004

Subjects:

Economic conditions--Forecasts and trends, Proletariat--Economic aspects, Proletariat--Forecasts and trends, Working class in television--Economic aspects, Working class in television--Forecasts and trends, Working class--Economic aspects, Working class--Forecasts and trends

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...ethnicity/race, and working-class resistance is...overshadows the history of labor in the...central part of the working-class experience for...context. "The working class made itself as...the new social history mode of analysis...

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Herbert G. Gutman, 1928-1985, and the Writing of Working-Class History

Magazine article by Gregory S. Kealy; Monthly Review, Vol. 38, May 1986

Subjects:

Gutman, Herbert--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Criticism and interpretation, Working class whites--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and the Writing of Working-Class History. by Gregory...research into the history of the working class of Paterson, New Jersey...Much in the "new history" soundly examines...important aspects of past working-class experience. But too...
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The Making of the U.S. Working Class

Magazine article by Harry Braverman; Monthly Review, Vol. 46, November 1994

Subjects:

Industrial development--Social aspects, Industrialization--Social aspects, Working class--History

Collections: Entire Library

...sources of the working-class population. Let to...the shifting of the working population from some...centuries ago, the history of work was, with...to be embedded in history and thereby enriched...entire story of the working class, not only the way...
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Hideously Middle-Class: The BBC's White Season Equates Working-Class Culture with Racism and the BNP, and Exposes Unsavoury Values at the Heart of the Corporation, Writes Lynsey Hanley

Magazine article by Lynsey Hanley; New Statesman, Vol. 137, March 10, 2008

Subjects:

British culture, Proletariat--Demographic aspects, Proletariat--Portrayals, Racism--Portrayals, White Season (Television program), Working class in television--Demographic aspects, Working class in television--Portrayals, Working class--Demographic aspects, Working class--Portrayals

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...worthy of a TV series. Working-class lives in Britain are...been few points in our history at which working people...commonplace to point out that working-class voters did not "ask...the most misquoted in history. There is no evidence...
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A Statistical Portrait of the U.S. Working Class

Magazine article by Michael D. Yates; Monthly Review, Vol. 56, April 2005

Subjects:

Labor economics--Analysis, Labor economics--Statistics, Labor market--Analysis, Labor market--Statistics, Proletariat--Analysis, Proletariat--Forecasts and trends, Proletariat--Statistics, Social conditions--Analysis, Working class in television--Analysis, Working class in television--Forecasts and trends, Working class in television--Statistics, Working class--Analysis, Working class--Forecasts and trends, Working class--Statistics

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...the kind of broad-based working-class spending that marked the...employment. The state of working America is in large part a function of the class struggle. Although wages...rebuilding of power of the U.S. working class is really the only thing...
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Working-Class Poets and Self-Education

Magazine article by A.D. Harvey; Contemporary Review, Vol. 274, May 1999

Subjects:

Poets--Social aspects, Self-culture--United Kingdom, United Kingdom--18th century, Working class--Social aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...were the chances of a working-class reader encountering the...chance to mix with other working-class intellectuals who might...Eusebiuss Ecclesiastical History, Josephuss History of...to draw attention to working-class writers as a group phenomenon...

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Voters 'Driven to Ruthlessly Exploiting Labour's Neglect of the Working Class

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 17, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the Royal College of Arts and became a lecturer in art history. He joined the BNP in 1999. I ask him if he is a racist...neighbouring Barking, couldnt give a damn about the white working class. Dagenham was built on Ford. And yet when the MG car...
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Croquet Photos Betray Working-Class Credentials

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 29, 2006

Subjects:

Prescott, John

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...embattled Deputy Prime Minister had betrayed his famous working-class roots by playing the game in the grounds of his grace-and-favour...or so and its a sport for men and women of any age. History shows the posh image of the game may indeed be overstated...
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Plight of White Working-Class Boys

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 19, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...gender divides butsilence then ensued on class. Mr Puckrins proposal for a probe into the effects of white working-classunderachievement on the economy in...thatcould assist community cohesion, such as history. He added: It is historical fact that...
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You Don't Need to Be Rich to Graduate; the National Audit Office Says That Only 9% of Oxbridge Students Are from Working-Class Backgrounds. KIRSTI ADAIR Talks to One Graduate Who Bucked the Trend

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), January 21, 2002

Subjects:

University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...opportunities, " he says. "With all its history, it is different to other universities...first academic year, the average middle class student will be pounds 2,645 in debt compared to pounds 3,000 for working class students. The Government has...
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Football: TORRES: A Working Class Hero Is All That I Want to Be; EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW If I Had the Idea I'd Already Be a Success Just by Joining Liverpool, I Wouldn't Have Come, Says Striker

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), July 13, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...this. "I also like that Liverpool is a working class area with supporters who I believe are...be given the size of the club and its history. I hoped to reach certain targets and...up; SIGN HERE: Torres and Benitez touch history

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February Revolution , in French History

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

FEBRUARY REVOLUTION , in French history 1848, French revolution that overthrew the monarchy of...Francois Guizot , and partly from the poor conditions of the working class, which were intensified by the economic crisis of 1846 47...
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History

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Thompson, and Herbert Gutman, who were influenced by Marxist class analysis, wrote histories of working people and the popular classes. Other social historians have explored the history of those who formerly were largely ignored, such as women and...
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Levasseur, Émile

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...at the College de France before becoming (1872) professor of geography, history, and economic statistics. His most famous works are histories of the French working class, Histoire des classes ouvrieres en France depuis la conquete de Jules Cesar...
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Marxism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of society is the inexorable "history of class struggle." According to this...the momentary interests of the working class," and by helping to prepare...Karl Marx (1968); G. Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness (tr. 1971); P...
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Cole, George Douglas Howard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...studies. Among his original works are A Short History of the British Working Class Movement (3 vol., 1927; rev. ed. 1948), The...rev. ed. The British People, 1947), and A History of Socialist Thought (5 vol. in 7, 1953 60...

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