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The portrayal of the working-class and working-class culture in Barry Hines’s novels
… 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 and Smiles in 1981, …
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Education and the Working-Class
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Football, violence and working class culture
… places over the years where young males from working class backgrounds have been involved. Issues of class and culture, especially the sub-culture of the young and the sub-culture of violence are also examined with special reference to young males and their occupation of the football terraces. …
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Working-class housing in Plymouth 1870-1914
… thesis sets out to explore the development of working-class housing in Plymouth, East Stonehouse and Devonport in the period between 1870 and 1914. Housing reform has been well documented with particular reference to London and other large urban areas, but has been little explored in the …
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Play in a Working -Class Taiwanese Preschool
… was to investigate children's everyday play in a working class Taiwanese preschool. Because Taiwan is currently rethinking the direction of early childhood education, it is timely to look closely at play in a preschool setting. Since recent debates in the U.S. have led some American schools to …
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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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Regulative Legitimacy and Entry in Working-class Industries
<p>Entrepreneurs benefit significantly from being perceived as legitimate during the venture creation process. The strategies they use to obtain legitimacy, however, change contingent on costs. Importantly, available strategies have the power to influence entrepreneurs' decisions to exploit …
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Working class single mothers : performing middle class identity
… motherhood has been devoted to poor or middle class single mothers. In this study I interviewed working class single mothers. Their unique position between the poor and the middle class leads to interesting observations about how women at the boundaries do and perform class. These women, while …
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The making of 'Labour's working class', 1931-1951.
… Election was the first time that a majority of working-class electors supported the Labour Party in Britain. This dissertation seeks to account for this breakthrough achievement without assuming such support was ‘natural’. Using archived material from Mass-Observation, it places Labour’s appeals …
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Towards a theory of working class literature : Lewis Grassic Gibbon's "A Scots quair" in the context of earlier working class writing
… thesis is to develop a theoretical approach to working class literature, up to and including the 1930's, in order to place Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Ouair within the context of working class writing. In developing this approach I have drawn on the critical models of Marxist, feminist, …
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British feature films and working-class culture, 1945-1950
… the Second World War, British films could offer working-class audiences reinforcement for their values and attitudes. The work is in four parts: • Part one comprises a critical exploration of published literature on working-class life in late 1940s across a range of disciplines. • Part two is an …
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Housie as leisure pursuit for older working class women
… and family commitment, the world view of older working-class women focuses on housie as an enjoyable medium for non-intimate social interaction which is both economically viable and convenient to access. Future research needs to focus on the discovery and exploration of older working-class …
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High school achievement among working class students in Junior Lyceums
… processes cannot be generalisable because some working class students experience academic success. The purpose of this study is to investigate how and why some students from the working class homes succeed in Junior Lyceums, in spite of economic, social and cultural disadvantages, especially …
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The career decision making experience of five working class men
Five working class men described the experience of decision-making related to their participation in paid employment. Each man was interviewed in depth. The interviews were audio taped and transcribed, from this data an account of the subject’s experiences were generated. Each account was validated …
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Opinions about public healthcare from working-class leaders in Saskatchewan
… of resistance is especially interesting among working-class people in Saskatchewan, a demographic group who stand to lose much if Canada’s healthcare system would ever transmute into something akin to the healthcare system in the United States. This study was designed to better understand how …
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Working-class newspapers, community and consciousness in Chicago, 1880-1930
This dissertation focuses on Chicago working-class and labor newspapers published between 1880 and 1930, documenting an often- neglected part of communications history. The workers' press played a key role in sustaining and promoting U.S. working-class movements. Chicago's working-class press …
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