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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"class inequality"”.
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Feeling devalued: the creative industries, motherhood, gender and class inequality
… disabled, gendered and more recently socially classed backgrounds resulting in the awareness that the majority of those who control the means of production for creative and cultural commodities are male, white and middle class. With regards to women, the problem of gender inequality has …
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Class Inequality among Third World Women Wage Earners: Mistresses and Maids in the Philippines
… sustain, and reproduce inequalities. I examine class inequality among employed women in the Philippines in the context of mistress-maid employment relationship. Using feminist fieldwork approaches, my gatekeeper, Merly, and I conducted extensive interviews and focus groups with thirty-one maids …
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Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Reexamined: Good or Bad for Gender and Class Inequality in Employment across Twenty-Four High-Income Countries?
… earnings, and occupational attainment, by class. To extend the literature, the relationship between the two policies and class inequality in employment between low- and highly educated women was also explored.</p> <p>Overall, the results show the importance of moving toward …
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Welcome to the knowledge factory? A study of working class experience, identity and learning in Irish Higher Education
This is a study of working class students’experience in Irish Higher Education. It is based on eighty one in-depth interviews with fifty one students of all ages between 2007 and 2012 gathered longitudinally in three different institutions of Higher Education in the Republic of Ireland. Using …
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Breaking Through: How do Adult Learners negotiate Class prior to, during and after Higher Education?
… of adult learners and how they have negotiated class prior to, during and after higher education. Class is a difficult subject to talk about, however, it is important that it is examined particularly in relation to the education system as much of the literature outlines that there is a direct …
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Contested Majority: The Representation Of The White Working Class In Us Politics From The 1930s To The 1990s
… examines the representation of the white working class in US politics from the 1930s to the 1990s: how politicians, journalists, pollsters, pundits, political commentators, social movement groups, and others have studied, written about, and claimed to speak for white working class people and how …
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Consumer Socialization in Families: How Parents Teach Children about Spending, Saving, and the Importance of Money
… for familial relationships and gender and class inequality in regards to family and consumer activities.
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Occupy, blockade, circulate : narrating community in 21st century crisis fiction
… growing field of novels concerned with crises of inequality and that the formal innovations in these novels are representations of how social movements understand and intervene with the infrastructural facilitation of inequality. The first chapter uses accounts of Occupy Wall Street to understand …
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Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island
… a divide emerged between the rising black middle class and black working poor, and distinctly ‘black’ suburbs emerged with problems familiar to postwar inner cities. While urban racial inequality is often framed in terms of housing segregation and the city/suburb divide, census and labor market …
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Twenty-First Century Working-Class Girls' Imagined Futures: A Child-Centred Socialist Feminist Research Project
Gender and class inequality exist throughout UK society however topical debates often focus on the discussion of sexualisation of women, with other gendered and classed spheres of oppression fading from view. Working with 11-and 12-year-old girls from working-class backgrounds this research adapts …
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The specter of the American Civil War in British writing of the mid-nineteenth century.
… the Atlantic was bringing issues of gender and class inequality to a head. In a sense, America became Britain's ghost of past, present, and future. Throughout this dissertation, I explore how popular British writing of the mid-nineteenth century is haunted by the American Civil War. Here, I …
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The critical state of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in Initial Teacher Education (ITE): an exploration of student teachers’ initial understandings of and experiences with, a ‘praxis’curriculum design to promote greater inclusion, equality and active participation in global democratic societies
… such as racism, gender discrimination, and class inequality, fostering democratic competencies in themselves and their students (Freire, 1970). Practically, involvement with Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and praxis curriculum design empowers student teachers to address the root causes …
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The specter of the American Civil War in British writing of the mid-nineteenth century.
… the Atlantic was bringing issues of gender and class inequality to a head. In a sense, America became Britain's ghost of past, present, and future. Throughout this dissertation, I explore how popular British writing of the mid-nineteenth century is haunted by the American Civil War. Here, I …
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Neoliberalism and alternative food movements: markets, the state, and knowledge production in Southern California
… is resisting the legacy of institutional racism, class inequality, city disinvestment, and supermarket abandonment that forged Southeastern as a space of exclusion. Not simply a project about food, PNV uses food as a tool to empower the neighborhood by engaging educational institutions in the …
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Independent Women? Social class and Social Policy after the Gender Revolution in the West
… resulted in positive change for women across the class spectrum. The large-scale entrance of women into paid labor was not accompanied by men’s equal take up in unpaid domestic work. Thus, women found themselves struggling to balance work and family life and as a result, gender inequality in …
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What does money mean? : frames of wealth and economic identity in U.S. politics, 1980-2020
… groups in the U.S. use or ignore differences in class and wealth to order who and what is important in our democratic republic. This dissertation focuses on that concern in six chapters. In the first chapter, I overview the historic and contemporary contexts of wealth in the United States, …