Author: Geoffrey CrossickPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780856643484
Category : Classes moyennes - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The Lower Middle Class in Britain, 1870-1914
Author: Geoffrey CrossickPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780856643484
Category : Classes moyennes - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The Lower Middle Class in Britain
Author: Geoffrey Joel CrossickPublisher:
ISBN: 9780709901099
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The Lower Middle Class in Britain 1870-1914
Author: Geoffrey CrossickPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317239903
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
First published in 1977. This book records the emergence of a lower middle class in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Victorian society had always contained a marginal middle class of shopkeepers and small businessmen, but in the closing decades of the nineteenth century the growth of white-collar salaried occupations created a new and distinctive force in the social structure. These essays look at the place of the lower middle class within British society and examine its ideals and values. Some essays concentrate on occupational groups – clerks and shopkeepers – while others focus on aspects of lower middle class life – religion, housing and jingoism. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Lower Middle Class in Britain, 1870-1914
Author: Imagining the Middle Class
Author: Dror WahrmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521477109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Why and how did the British people come to see themselves as living in a society centred around a middle class? The answer provided by Professor Wahrman challenges most prevalent historical narratives: the key to understanding changes in conceptualisations of society, the author argues, lies not in underlying transformations of social structure - in this case industrialisation, which supposedly created and empowered the middle class - but rather in changing political configurations. Firmly grounded in a close reading of an extensive array of sources, and supported by comparative perspectives on France and America, the book offers a nuanced model for the interplay between social reality, politics, and the languages of class.
The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain
Author: David CannadinePublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231096676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Although politicians in Britain are now calling for a "classless society," can one conclude, as do many scholars, that class does not matter anymore? Cannadine uncovers the meanings of class for such disparate figures as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Margaret Thatcher and identifies the moments when opinion shifted, such as the aftermath of the French Revolution and the rise of the Labour Party in the early twentieth century.
Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926415034X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Middle-class households feel left behind and have questioned the benefits of economic globalisation.
The New Politics of Class
Author: Geoffrey EvansPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198755759
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This argument is developed in three stages. The first is to show that there has been enormous social continuity in class divisions. The authors demonstrate this using extensive evidence on class and educational inequality, perceptions of inequality, identity and awareness, and political attitudes over more than fifty years. The second stage is to show that there has been enormous political change in response to changing class sizes. Party policies, politicians' rhetoric, and the social composition of political elites have radically altered. Parties offer similar policies, appeal less to specific classes, and are populated by people from more similar backgrounds. Simultaneously the mass media have stopped talking about the politics of class. The third stage is to show that these political changes have had three major consequences. First, as Labour and the Conservatives became more similar, class differences in party preferences disappeared. Second, new parties, most notably UKIP, have taken working class voters from the mainstream parties. Third, and most importantly, the lack of choice offered by the mainstream parties has led to a huge increase in class-based abstention from voting. Working class people have become much less likely to vote. In that sense, Britain appears to have followed the US down a path of working class political exclusion, ultimately undermining the representativeness of our democracy. They conclude with a discussion of the Brexit referendum and the role that working class alienation played in its historic outcome.
Lower-Middle-Class Nation
Author: Nicola BishopPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135006436X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class worker in British life since 1850. Considering highbrow, lowbrow, and middle-brow forms across literature, film, television and more, Nicola Bishop traces the development of the lower-middle-class from the mid-19th century to the present day, tackling a number of pressing, consistent concerns such as automation, commuting, and the search for a life/work balance. Above all, this book brings together ideas about class, nationhood, and gender, demonstrating that a particularly British lower-middle-class identity is constructed through the spaces and practices of the everyday. Aimed at undergraduate, postgraduates and scholars working in media and social history, literature, popular culture, cultural studies and sociology, Lower-Middle-Class Nation represents a new direction in cultural histories of work, labour, and leisure.
The Lower Middle Class in Britain 1870-1914. Paperback Ed
Author: Geoffrey (ed.) CROSSICKPublisher:
ISBN: 9780709901587
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description