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Will the British Working Class Stand Up and Fight Back?
I spent my teenage years in 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. Working-class people struggled in a grim environment. Three million people were unemployed, local services and the NHS were underfunded, and attacks were launched against unions (as a result of the miners’ … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Sarah Attfield, Working-Class Politics
Tagged austerity, Brexit, British election, Thatcher era, working-class voters
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A Working-Class Appreciation for the National Health Service
I have spent a lot of time in a National Health Service (NHS) hospital in the southwest of England recently because my mother has been seriously ill. Without the treatment and care she received there, she would not have survived. … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Sarah Attfield, The Working Class and the Economy
Tagged class and health, health care, social welfare
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A Future Nobel Literature Prize for a Working-Class Rapper?
Reactions were mixed to the announcement that songwriter Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Some literary aficionados were outraged that a popular musician had won the prize (rather than a novelist or poet), while others were … Continue reading
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Sarah Attfield
Tagged Nobel Prize, rap music, UK grime, working-class culture
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Solidarity, not Division: Understanding London’s East End
The East End of London has a long history of working-class community. It has been a place of industry, where the river Thames and the river Lea have provided work for many people. The area attracted many immigrants, including workers … Continue reading
Greyhound Racing in Australia: The Demise of a Working-Class Pastime (and Why That’s a Good Thing)
The recent announcement that the New South Wales government in Australia was banning Greyhound racing starting in 2017 surprised many. They didn’t expect this from the conservative Liberal Party that runs the NSW government, and many were cynical about … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Sarah Attfield, Working-Class Culture
Tagged dog racing, working-class culture
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Art for whose Sake? Working-Class Life in Visual Art
A recent article on Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet art installation at the Guggenheim Museum in New York focused on the huge amounts of money that contemporary art can fetch, and concluded that the monetary value of such art highlights economic … Continue reading
