Working class

About: Working class is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8489 publications have been published within this topic receiving 179587 citations. The topic is also known as: lower class & labouring class.

Learning to Labor: How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs

Abstract: Contents: Key to transcripts Introduction. Part I Ethnography: Elements of a culture Class and institutional form of a culture Labour power, culture, class and institution. Part II Analysis: Penetrations Limitations The role of ideology Notes towards a theory of cultural forms and social reproduction Monday morning and the millennium. Index.

The Making of the English Working Class

Abstract: Fifty years since first publication, E P Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny This classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding of English social history E P Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole-life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation, and who yet created a cultured and political consciousness of great vitality Reviews: "A dazzling vindication of the lives and aspirations of the then - and now once again - neglected culture of working-class England" (Martin Kettle, Observer) "Superbly readable a moving account of the culture of the self-taught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation" (Asa Briggs, Financial Times) "Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst" (E J Hobsbawm, Independent) "An event not merely in the writing of English history but in the politics of our century" (Michael Foot, Times Literary Supplement) "The greatest of our socialist historians" (Terry Eagleton, New Statesman) About the author: E P Thompson was born in 1924 and read history at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, graduating in 1946 An academic, writer and acclaimed historian, his first major work was a biography of William Morris The Making of the English Working Class was instantly recognized as a classic on its publication in 1963 and secured his position as one of the leading social historians of his time Thompson was also an active campaigner and key figure in the ending of the Cold War He died in 1993, survived by his wife and two sons

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.

Abstract: This is the new, fully updated edition of this now-classic study of working-class racism. Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to blacks. In a lengthy new introduction, Roediger surveys recent scholarship on whiteness, and discusses the changing face of labor in the twenty-first century.

The wages of whiteness : race and the making of the American working class

Abstract: This is the new, fully updated edition of this now-classic study of working-class racism. Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to blacks. In a lengthy new introduction, Roediger surveys recent scholarship on whiteness, and discusses the changing face of labor in the twenty-first century.