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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"The Working Class"”.
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Education and the Working-Class
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The working class experience in contemporary Australian poetry
The Working-Class Experience in Contemporary Australian Poetry Contemporary Australian poetry neglects its working-class voices. Literary journals rarely publish poetry that focuses on working-class life and there is little analysis of the poetics of class in contemporary Australian scholarship on …
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Unemployment and the Working Class: Bolton, Lancashire in the 1930's
… that previous efforts have been limited in their ability truly to analyze the impact of unemployment. It places the issue of class at the center, arguing that the study of unemployment not only needs to examine individual experiences and reactions, but also those of the socio-economic group …
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Between religion and politics: The working class religious left, 1880-1920
Between Religion and Politics: The Working Class Religious Left, 1880-1920 makes two main arguments: First, through an analysis of socialist print culture and party meeting minutes, it argues that Christianity animated socialist culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. …
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Effects of the working class label: increased affect and social class identification
Building on social identity theory and the sociocultural model of the self, we show that relatively lower-class individuals who value their social class identity (as activated by the “working class” label) experience elevated group identification and well-being. First, we found that social class …
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The portrayal of the working-class and working-class culture in Barry Hines’s novels
This thesis examines Barry Hines’s representation of contemporary British workingclass and working-class culture. The corpus includes the writer’s nine novels: The Blinder published in 1966, A Kestrel for a Knave in 1968, First Signs in 1972, The Gamekeeper in 1975, The Price of Coal in 1979, Looks …
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"It was all about the working class” : Norm Gallagher, the BLF and the Australian Labor Movement
The deregistration and dismemberment of the Builders Labourers’ Federation (BLF), which was executed by Federal and State Labor Governments, was one of the most significant events in Australian industrial relations history. The union and its general secretary, Norm Gallagher, continue to excite …
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Floating Bath Houses: Public Health and Recreation for the Working Class in Nineteenth-century New Orleans
One seemingly lost aspect of working-class life in antebellum New Orleans stems from the effort of entrepreneurs to provide bathing and swimming facilities for the city's working poor. In exchange for a relatively inexpensive fee per use, working-class New Orleanians served as the customer base for …
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The impact of liquor on the working class (with particular focus on the Western Cape) : the implications of the structure of the liquor industry and the role of the state in this regard
This thesis examines the role liquor has played in shaping both the rural and the urban 'Coloured' working class in the Western Cape. The dramatic events during the 1976 Soweto uprisings and the subsequent blatant and dramatic restructuring conveniently illustrate the complex interplay between the …
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Structures, relationships and attitudes: coalmining family life in the Black Country during the second half of the Nineteenth Century
The aim of this Thesis is to describe and to analyse the structure of coalminer families and households in two woricing-class communities at two points in time in the second half of the nineteenth century. The methodology used is essentially that of comparison of coalminer households across time to …
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A critical and comparative analysis of organisational forms of selected Marxist parties, in theory and in practice, with special reference to the last half century
The diversity of the proletariat during the final two decades of the 20th century reached a point where traditional socialist and communist parties could not represent all sections of the working class. Moreover, the development of social movements other than the working class after the 1960s …
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To Want Something Better is to Want Something Worse: A Critique of the Labour Party’s (Continual) Adaptation to the Capitalist State
Drawing on the Marxist critique of bourgeois political economy, this thesis empirically and theoretically analyses the political and ideological trajectory of the Labour Party from 1945-97, concentrating in particular on the Party’s reluctance in seriously changing the structures of the British …
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Articulating class : language and conflict in English literature from Gaskell to Tressell
… on English literary texts written between the 1830s and 1914 and which have the working class as their central focus, the thesis examines various ways in which class conflict inheres within the textual language, particularly as far as the representation of working-class speech is concerned. …
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‘This is about an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs’: Continuity and change in the life and family experiences of fifty English working-class individuals between the years 1900 and 1945
This thesis is a study of the everyday lives of fifty working-class individuals in the first half of the twentieth century. These twenty-six women and twenty-four men were all born between 1899 and 1915 in England and self-identified as working class. These individuals were not politicians, …
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Peterborough Trades Union Council 1899-1979: A Forgotten Arena for Working Class Politics
… only analysed trades union councils briefly. These encounters have rarely looked beyond high-profile events such as suspected communist infiltration in the early interwar and post-war periods and the 1926 General Strike, neglecting much of the significant work which trades councils have done. …
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Housework and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada
… in 1970s Italy and Canada, presents a history of the Wages for Housework movements in Italy and Canada (1972-1978), looking at the parallel development of autonomist feminist politics in these locations. Based on a series of interviews with feminists involved in the movement, my dissertation …
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Amateur brass and wind bands in Southern England between the late eighteenth century and circa 1900
This thesis examines and offers explanations for the development of largely working-class amateur brass and wind bands in southern England in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. It begins by describing the beginnings of widespread amateur banding and considers the contribution made to …
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The `Peace Arsenal' scheme: the campaign for non-munitions work at the Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich, after the First World War
Following the Armistice many Arsenal workers wanted to retain their well-paid employment. There was a well established community; there was little comparable work in the locality and accommodation was difficult to find elsewhere. In order to secure peacetime production at the Arsenal, the labour …
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