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1 day ago WEB This ‘forgotten’ class are all white, it seems. In Britain, where inequality and opportunity are hugely influenced by social class, ‘working class’ is often synonymous with being white, despite ethnic minority communities sharing many of the same experiences and …
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C at Hobbs is the founder and director of UK-based We Own It, which campaigns …
1 day ago WEB Working-class respondents who are more concerned by inequalities and think it more difficult to move between classes – that is, those who have a more politicised view of class – have more ...
6 days ago WEB Introduction. Upon being confirmed as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May proclaimed that it was a ‘burning injustice … if you’re a white, working-class boy, you’re less likely than anybody else in Britain to go to University’ (May Citation 2016b).While the politically controversial topic of ‘white working-class’ …
1 week ago WEB By Anoosh Chakelian. “The class war is over,” declared Tony Blair in 1999, two years after he became prime minister – the same year he envisioned a new “middle class that will include millions of people who traditionally may see themselves as working class”. His deputy, John Prescott, said in 1997: “We are all middle class now.”.
1 week ago WEB Once upon a time white working-class people were seen as a political problem. Now they are back in fashion – celebrities such as Adele and David Beckham are proud to talk about their working ...
1 week ago WEB The ‘class’ content of the white working class in this context is clear. The white workers who migrated to the Copperbelt formed a collective identity along the lines of both race and class. This was an identity that incorporated some whites while very clearly excluding others, most obviously their employers, but also professionals ...
1 week ago WEB The story of white working-class educational failure is nothing new. The latest report has stoked controversy because of its suggestion that teaching poor white kids about “white privilege ...
4 days ago WEB Geoff Evans and James Tilley outline the terms of a 'new class war' against the working class, based on its shrinking share of the population, low political participation rates and the decreasing return it provides to electoral vote-chasers. The mid-20th century saw the rise of the working class. Whether you were an angry young man of the 1950s ...
1 day ago WEB Faiza Shaheen is director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies and Labour PPC for Chingford & Woodford Green. Working-class Britons include old, young, black, white, minorities and many ...
4 days ago WEB The problem is that the term “white working class” has come to be used across the political spectrum for differing reasons, but with similar effects. Some on the right use “white working ...
1 day ago WEB The fixation with the ‘white working class’ as a disadvantaged and underrepresented section of British society by politicians and the media is more pronounced than ever before in the wake of ...
1 week ago WEB was non-white immigration into that country: white identity arrived in working class politics when, and because, ‘people of colour’ arrived in Britain. The argument that working class racism ...
3 days ago WEB The estimates demonstrate how the likelihood of Labour support is predicted to change depending on evaluations of how closely Labour ‘look[s] after the interests of’ (a) working class, (b) black and Asian, and (c) middle class people among white working class (red), white graduate (blue), and ethnic minority (black) respondents. 95% ...
1 week ago WEB The mid-20th century saw the rise of the working class. Whether you were an angry young man of the 1950s literary scene, or a working-class hero of '60s pop culture, it was good to be working class. People were proud of their working-class status and …
1 week ago WEB The Southern Universities Network: White working-class males in British higher education: Pre and post-entry perspectives (2017). This report brings together findings from two research projects commissioned in support of the Southern Universities Network (SUN), which explored the disadvantages experienced by white working-class males.
1 day ago WEB More specifically, the transition from whiteness as bourgeois identity within Victorian, relatively laissez-faire, capitalism to whiteness as a popular, or mass, identity, within the more state interventionist capitalism of the twentieth century is used to exemplify the mutable nature, and political complexities, of the relationship between ...
1 day ago WEB Brexit has been considered as the vote of a « white working class » by a significant part of the media, politicians, and academics. This expression became rapidly mainstream despite its atypical construction. One can reflect upon this new rhetorical category, different from the traditional notion of “working class”, and is implicitly but clearly construed first and …
6 days ago WEB Is Britain's working class already lost to a vicious cycle of political disengagement and exclusion? Geoff Evans and James Tilley outline the terms of a ‘new class war’ against the working class, based on its shrinking share of the population, low political participation rates and the decreasing return it provides to electoral vote-chasers.
1 week ago WEB This symposium is the first step towards developing a network of scholars working on the ‘new British labour history’, with the aim of both historicising and intervening in contemporary political debates about class. Its central problematic is the post-Brexit construction of the socially conservative ‘white working class’ as a political ...
1 week ago WEB The jury remains out. That Labour’s relationship with the British working class has changed fundamentally over the past three decades is not in dispute. Demographic shifts have caused a drift ...
2 days ago WEB During the nineteenth century, Britain was the only industrial nation, with the only large working class. Remarkably, as Table 15.1 indicates, there were more workers in manufacturing than in agriculture as early as the Battle of Waterloo, in 1815, virtually a hundred years earlier than in any other major Power (as Table 19.1 also reveals).
2 days ago WEB Who Cares about the White Working Class? In response to Hazel Blears' call for white working class voices and grievances to be heard, leading thinkers on race and class consider the relationship between social class and race equality. They conclude that the White working class are discriminated against on a range of different fronts, but they ...
4 days ago WEB Capitalism, not socialism, is a command economy. The vast majority of us in this country are working class. Only a tiny minority is not working class, able to live from the exploitation of the labour power of others. In the Communist Manifesto (1847-8), Marx described this particular class structure. “The bourgeoisie (the capitalist class ...
1 day ago WEB May 15, 2024 3:08am. Getty. Working class representation in UK film and TV is at its lowest level for a decade, according to new research. The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre found ...