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Is Class Really Forgotten?: Working-Class Studies Association 2017 Awards
Over the last week, I’ve read a couple of pieces in which elite academics highlight their discovery of the importance of class, both noting how the topic has been neglected by academia and ‘the elite’. In a Financial Times interview … Continue reading
Working-Class Nostalgia
The first time I presented a paper at an academic conference, I was accused of being nostalgic. My mistake, as my fellow academic pointed out, was that in my bid to find some value in working-class occupational cultures I was … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Tim Strangleman, Understanding Class, Working-Class Culture
Tagged labor, nostalgia, politics, working-class culture
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The Extraordinary Ordinary Working Class
When Theresa May stood on the steps of Downing Street earlier this summer, after succeeding David Cameron as Prime Minister, she did something extraordinary: she used the phrase ‘working class’. Not for May the mealy-mouthed ‘working people’, ‘hardworking families’, or … Continue reading
Some Silver Linings for the Working Class in British Politics?
On the face of it, there is little to make progressives cheerful about in British politics at the moment. In the wake of June’s Brexit vote the Labour party has begun to knock large lumps out of itself with a … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Tim Strangleman, Working-Class Politics
Tagged Brexit, British politics, Class and economics, Labour Party
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A Working-Class Brexit
I woke up Friday morning to the news that my country decided that it no longer wants to be part of the European Union. With a large turnout of 72% of the eligible electorate, the vote went 51.9% in favour … Continue reading
Teaching Work and Learning from Working-Class Students
It was my freshman year at university, and we were just back from Easter break for the first tutorial of the summer term. The seminar leader, an older middle-class professor, went around the table asking each of us what we … Continue reading
Posted in Class and Education, Contributors, Issues, Tim Strangleman
Tagged teaching, working conditions, working-class students
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Class and the EU referendum
On June 23rd, voters in the UK get a say on whether to remain in the European Union (EU). The UK first joined what was then called the European Economic Community (EEC) back in 1973, and in a 1975 vote, … Continue reading
