Class, Work and Whiteness - Nicola Ginsburgh - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in the settler colonial context. -- .

Class, Work and Whiteness - Nicola Ginsburgh - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in the settler colonial context. -- .

'The Better Class' of Indians - A. Wainwright - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. It argues that class served as the primary register through which British polite society interpreted and applied other social distinctions such as race, gender, and religion. -- .

'The Better Class' of Indians - A. Wainwright - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. It argues that class served as the primary register through which British polite society interpreted and applied other social distinctions such as race, gender, and religion. -- .

Black Middle-Class Britannia - Ali Meghji - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle class cultural consumption, incorporating insights from critical race theory and cultural sociology. -- .

Black Middle-Class Britannia - Ali Meghji - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle class cultural consumption, incorporating insights from critical race theory and cultural sociology. -- .

Working-Class Writing and Publishing in the Late Twentieth Century - Tom Woodin - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years. -- .

Popular Culture and Working–Class Taste in Britain, 1930–39 - Robert James - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is a landmark study which examines the film and reading tastes of working-class consumers in 1930s Britain. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Robert James argues that working-class consumers used popular film and fiction to answer a range of cultural and social needs in this tumultuous decade. -- .

Popular Culture and Working–Class Taste in Britain, 1930–39 - Robert James - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is a landmark study which examines the film and reading tastes of working-class consumers in 1930s Britain. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Robert James argues that working-class consumers used popular film and fiction to answer a range of cultural and social needs in this tumultuous decade. -- .

Literature and Class - Andrew Hadfield - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants’ Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. -- .

Leisure, Citizenship and Working–Class Men in Britain, 1850–1940 - Brad Beaven - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

From the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable crowd of an early twentieth century football match, working-class male leisure proved to be a contentious issue for contemporary observers. For middle-class social reformers from across the political spectrum, the spectacle of popular leisure offered a view of working-class habits, and a means by which lifestyles and behaviour could be assessed. For the mid-Victorians, gingerly stepping into a new mass democratic age, the desire to create a bond between the recently enfranchised male worker and the nation was more important than ever. This trend continued as those in governance perceived that ''good'' leisure and citizenship could fend off challenges to social stability such as imperial decline, the mass degenerate city, hooliganism, civic and voter apathy and fascism. Thus, between 1850 and 1945 the issue of male leisure became enmeshed with changing contemporary debates on the encroaching mass society and its implications for good citizenry. Working-class culture has often been depicted as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw from a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both class and gender exclusive. This lively and readable book draws from fascinating accounts from those who participated in and observed contemporary popular leisure making it of importance to students and teachers of social history, popular culture, urban history, historical geography, historical sociology and cultural studies.

Working-Class Writing and Publishing in the Late Twentieth Century - Tom Woodin - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. New literary and historical work challenged dominant cultural ideas and practices. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments which opens up new perspectives on culture, class and identity over the past fifty years.The origins of this cultural explosion are traced in the context of international shifts in class politics, civil rights, personal expression and cultural change. The actual written output is analysed through a number of lenses, looking at the work of writing workshops, young people, older people and adult literacy groups. Understanding the creative energy of these groups, and the individuals within them, provides crucial insights into everyday working class life often hidden from mainstream commentators. A number of thematic chapters explore the way audiences consumed this work, the learning of writers on a cultural journey, the fierce debates over identity, class and organization as well as the reception of this work within the broader institutional frameworks of the Arts Council among others. This book is accessibly written but engages with a wide range of scholarly work in History, Education, Cultural studies, literature and sociology. As such it will be an important book for both students and lecturers as well as the interested reader.

Working-Class Organisations and Popular Tourism, 1840–1970 - Susan Barton - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This study of working class tourism examines the evolution of the English holiday over two centuries, charting workers forms of travel from ''tramping'' and the ''artisan''s grand tour'' to day tripping and package holidays abroad.

The British Working Class in Postwar Film - Philip Gillett - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

An incidental pleasure of watching a film is what it tells us about the society in which it is made. Using a sociological model this title looks at how working-class people were portrayed in British feature films in the decade after the Second World War. -- .

The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class - Daniel R. Smith - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Charting the decline and recent resurgence of the landed gentry in British public life, The fall and rise of the English upper class explores how traditionalist worldviews, centred on kinship, inheritance, and the image of the house, have come to shape our politics and culture.

The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class - Simon Gunn - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the creation of a distinctive ''high'' culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s.The history of urban bourgeois culture has been relatively unexplored and under-theorised compared to popular culture. This volume therefore represents a significant contribution both to the study of middle-class cultural forms and to an understanding of the relationship between culture and power. In particular, it argues for the importance of ritualised modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority in the nineteenth-century city. As well as many original arguments, the book provides a clear and useful overview of the public cultures of Victorian ''respectability''.The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of social history, cultural history, urban history, cultural studies, urban studies and the sociology of culture.

Civvies - Laura Ugolini - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War -- .

Civvies - Laura Ugolini - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War -- .

The Feminine Public Sphere - Megan Smitley - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions and discourses used by disenfranchised middle-class women to express their citizenship. -- .

All in the Mix - Bridget Byrne - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

How do parents consider questions of race and class when they are choosing secondary schools for their children and does it differ from place to place? All in the mix: Race, class and school choice explores parents'' experience of negotiating school choice in particular places and how this talk is racialised and classed.

Mick Lynch - Gregor Gall - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Mick Lynch became a ‘working-class hero’ in the summer of 2022, when he offered a robust critique of the government and gave a voice to working people. This book explores Lynch’s background and his rise to the top of the RMT union, asking what leadership means for the working class and the left. -- .

Culture is Bad for You - Orian Brook - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a ‘creative class’ in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the workforce and audience for culture. -- .

Culture is Bad for You - Dave O'brien - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a ‘creative class’ in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the workforce and audience for culture. -- .

A Lark for the Sake of Their Country - Rachelle H. Saltzman - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class ‘volunteers’ in Great Britain’s 1926 General Strike. -- .

Literature and Class - Andrew Hadfield - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk