Ambivalent Relationships: London's Youth Culture and the Making of the Multi-Racial Society in the 1960s

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Fuhg
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
White Working Class ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Class Youth

The emergence and formation of British working-class youth cultures in the 1960s were characterized by an ambivalent relationship between British identity, global culture and the formation of a multicultural society in the post-war decades. While national and local newspapers mostly reported on racial tensions and racially-motivated violence, culminating in the Notting Hill riots of 1958, the relationship between London's white working-class youth and teenagers with migration backgrounds was also shaped by a reciprocal, direct and indirect, personal and cultural exchange based on social interaction and local conditions. Starting from the Notting Hill Riots 1958, the article reconstructs places and cultural spheres of interaction between white working-class youth and teenagers from Caribbean communities in London in the 1960s. Following debates and discussions on race relations and the participation of black youth in the social life of London in the 1960s, the article shows that British working-class youth culture was affected in various ways by the processes of migration. By dealing with the multicultural dimension of the post-war metropolis, white working-class teenagers negotiated socio-economic as well as political changes, contributing in the process to an emergent, new image of post-imperial Britain.

scholarly journals Resistance through realism: Youth subculture films in 1970s (and 1980s) Britain

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Working Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Youth Subculture ◽  
Youth Subcultures ◽  
The University ◽  
Class Youth ◽  
Made In

Film scholars have argued that the British social realist films of the late 1950s and early 1960s reflect the concerns articulated by British cultural studies during the same period. This article looks at how the social realist films of the 1970s and early 1980s similarly reflect the concerns of British cultural studies scholarship produced by the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies during the 1970s. It argues that the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies’ approach to stylised working-class youth subcultures is echoed in the portrayal of youth subcultures in the social realist films Pressure (1976), Bloody Kids (1979), Babylon (1980) and Made in Britain (1982). This article explores the ways in which these films show us both the strengths and weaknesses of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies’ work on subcultures.

Attempting to transgress neoliberal value: Constructing a micro-foundation of social values of working-class youth in vocational schools in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 1050-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benny C. Lu ◽  
Anita Koo ◽  
Ngai Pun
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Vocational Schools ◽  
Social Mechanism ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Youth

In contrast to the existing argument that the logic of capital has monetised almost every aspect of human relationships to the realm of exchange value, this article explores the social values that are practised by Chinese working-class youth as an alternative form of agency and everyday practice. Instead of understanding social values as a realm of value operating entirely outside the logic of exchange value, this article takes social values as the constitutive other of exchange value embodied in the neoliberalised form of capitalism. It attempts to develop a micro-foundation of social values or a social mechanism of values for understanding social protection and class solidarity. Employing in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations in vocational schools in China, at sites for the education and nurture of working-class youth, we ask what social values are, how they are perceived and exercised, and by whom. From students’ practices of care in schools, cooperation in the workplace and solidarity in the community, our goal is to build a micro-foundation of social values that challenges and goes beyond the logic of exchange value.

Fashion as a System: Changes in Demand as the Basis for the Establishment of the Italian Fashion System (1960–1970)

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 524-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Paris
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
World Market ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Italian Model ◽  
Development Methods

The 1960s proved to be a crucial decade for the emergent Italian fashion industry. In these pages, we seek to demonstrate that in Italy, an evolution of demand took place, structurally different from the Fifties, causing fundamental changes which impacted upon supply. This was a decisive change in the path which led Italy to complete the establishment of an authentic fashion system.Interest in the question is two-fold. The formalization of relations between players in the Italian fashion industry using systematic logic facilitated the positioning of the made in Italy brand at the pinnacle of the world market: understanding the underlying mechanism of this process is useful for the identification of the characteristics of an Italian model, distinct from those of other countries which make up the history of the fashion industry. Analyses of the reference settings and development methods of the Italian fashion system can represent a further key to understanding the characteristics and the context in which the social transformation of post-war Italy took place.

scholarly journals Informality, Inequality and Social Reintegration in Post-War Transition

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Social Reintegration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War

This article seeks to reconceptualize the notion of informality in the post-war context in order to investigate the neglected aspect of inequality which is associated with this kind of practice. It locates the problem of widespread informality in the social transformation triggered by a war that has been sustained by the post-war elite accommodation. Inequities created by a routine resort to informal arrangements in accessing assets and resources generate mistrust at the interpersonal, inter-group and institutional levels, sharpen a sense of discrimination and social injustice, and in the end, undermine post-war social reintegration. The argument draws on observations from Bosnia-Herzegovina.

scholarly journals Experiences of political mobilization and popular participation in Milan's working-class neighbourhoods: 1945–1967

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Marco Soresina
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War

Abstract The years 1945–55 were a period of reconstruction for Italy; the following decade was one of economic growth. An aspect of this transition is analysed here, in relation to the forms of social integration created in working-class neighbourhoods. The case-study focuses on Milan, and the two organizations studied are the consulte popolari (the ‘people's councils’), created by the left in the immediate post-war period, and the ‘social centres’ created in the mid-1950s by the IACP (the Autonomous Institute of Public Housing). Both were attempts to involve the new, outlying suburbs in the city's political life, each of them trying to adapt to different political phases. Both, I would like to suggest, succeeded in achieving certain results.

This Is Your Future

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Reform ◽  
Working Class ◽  
National Security ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Youth

The third chapter details the social and historical contexts of Milton High School that gave rise to its Homeland Security program. Based on Milton’s earlier school reform efforts aimed at preparing poor and working class youth of color for the technical workforce, the school eventually narrowed its focus to issues of, and jobs related to, national security.

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