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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"working classes"”.
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The role of women in education of the working classes - 1870-1904
… for mass schooling mostly lay with men working within both central and local government, I have gone beyond this perspective in order to examine the problem of class and gender as competing power structures in the development of an English school system. The Issue of gender Is addressed …
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The leisure activities of the rural working classes with special reference to Norfolk 1840-1940
… in the historiography of leisure – that of rural working class leisure activities. The first objective of this thesis is therefore to investigate different types of rural leisure, including ‘rational recreation’, traditional and innovative, and gender-specific pastimes. Using Norfolk as a case …
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Thomas Bywater Smithies and the British Workman : temperance education and mass circulation graphic imagery for the working classes, 1855-1883
… tool forextending temperance education among the working classes. Chapter One outlines the background to the development of illustrated temperance periodicals in the period up to 1855, while Chapter Two examines thelife and character of T. B. Smithies, and looks at the ways in which his interests …
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The Love of Learning in the Industrialized Age: Useful Knowledge, Imagination, and the Education of the Nineteenth-Century British Working Classes
… a weekly publication for the education of the working class, the early nineteenth century century Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge promises a selection of “useful and entertaining” information: 1). But from a glance at the issue’s contents the modern reader is …
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"On Wings of Everlasting Power: G. W. M. Reynolds and ""Reynolds's Newspaper"", 1848-1876"
… intellectual and rhetorical center of much of working-class radical, political, and social thought in mid-Victorian England. Structuring his political ideas on a melodramatic model, he argued that the aristocracy and monarchy had molded society so that the natural republican form of government, …
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Grief, Mourning and Motherhood: Cultural experiences of child and infant deaths across different social classes in the Victorian period
… of life in Victorian England, across all social classes, particularly the deaths of infants and children. 1 in 4 children died before the age of 5 consistently throughout the Victorian period. The Victorian fascination with death has been explored extensively by historians, especially the …
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Post-Coal Futures in Central Appalachia: A Critique of the Appalachian Regional Commission and Liberal Economic Development Models
… liberal origins are not sufficient for the working classes in the region to achieve a sustainable 'post-coal' future. Central Appalachia is one of the most impoverished regions in the United States and its political economy was shaped largely by coal mining that was overseen by absentee …
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The London Committee
… lost its land in 1837, the Church's hold on the working classes diminished. As a result, the only stable and powerful political force was the common people.
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The Americanization of the Virgin Islands, 1917-1946: Politics and Class Struggle During the First Thirty Years of American Rule
… and planters against a black middle and working class alliance that had just recently won some important victories. After 1917, both sides appealed to the American administrators for assistance. over the course of the next thirty years, the middle and working classes achieved greater …
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Captured Desires: Neoliberalism from Below in Fujimori's Peru
… ideas and incentives of large sections of the working classes and mystifying why neoliberalism has proven so remarkably enduring. In this thesis, I argue the neoliberal turn cannot be properly understood without examining neoliberalism from below, the variegated processes through which the …
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"Vulgarized" : victorian women's fiction in minor theatres
… new meanings for an often ignored sub group--the working class. In particular, I investigate multiple adaptations of Charltote Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton, and M.E. Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret for what the adaptation can reveal about how these playwrights conceptualized …
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Scenes of Reading: Forgotten Antebellum Readers, Self-Representation, and the Transatlantic Reprint Industry
… Industry" argues that African-American and white working-class people participated in transatlantic antebellum literary culture in a far more central and sophisticated manner than has been assumed. Employing "scenes" of reading--self-representations of what, where, how, and why African Americans …
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Entre a “Síndrome do pato” e o “efeito Mateus”: juventude e políticas sociais na periferia de Salvador
… that the experience of young people of the urban working classes, when benefiting from policies implemented both by the state and by third sector organizations, can be defined in terms of a combination of “duck syndrome” and “Matthew effect”.
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Od radikalismu k reformismu. Utváření představ o třídě ve druhé generaci představitelů českého dělnického hnutí, 1890-1914
… in the second generation of the Czech (Bohemian) Working-Class Movement. I selected time termination, because of the beginning of the 1890s involved onset of second generation of working-class movement, which deflected from radikalism the first generation of pioneers to engagement oscillating …
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Diego Rivera: constructing a myth
… as well as its indigenous population and working classes for inspiration. Rivera's work referenced these groups in both style and subject, and in his murals, the ordinary people of Mexico were made extraordinary, modern heroes through the eyes of Diego Rivera. The language he created, …
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Las raíces de la ira: Fernando Garcia’s Tone Poem & Chilean Politics in Music Culture
… how Chilean music represented issues of the working classes. As Salvador Allende established his associations with the resulting Nueva Cancion music, musicians faced the same social punishment as those within the Allende government. Within these historical events, I will contextualize how …
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Print and British imperialism : the society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, 1826-46
… limited access to schooling, namely the British working-classes. The SDUK published on a wide range of topics, from hydraulics and optics, to lighter subjects such as ornithology and natural history, before their dissolution in 1846. To date, there has been some research into the operations of …
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Martyrs at the Hearth: The Social-Religious Roles of Resistance Women During Nazi Germany
… within the ranks of academe, the military, the working classes, and the established churches. The Catholic Church, under the leadership of Pope Pius XI, entered into a non-interference agreement with Hitler, but the Evangelical Church experienced a severe split. From this division grew the …
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From Manchester to Burnley: sir James kay-Shuttleworth and his contribution to the moral and physical welfare of the poor in the periods 1828-1835 and 1842-1877
… The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester, with evidence from his activities in Burnley and Padiham, Lancashire, where he became a member of the landed elite due to his marriage. It is argued that after his retirement from …
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The 'Bury-al Board': poverty, politics and poor relief in the Brixworth Union, Northamptonshire c.1870-1900
… From the start of the crusade campaign, working people organised to fight for the reintroduction of outrelief. When the poor law was democratised in the 1890s the working-classes succeeded in becoming guardians of the poor for the first time and they outvoted the anti-outrelief policy. …
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