Banking on the Future: Choices, Aspirations and Economic Hardship in Working-Class Student Experience

2013 ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet Bradley ◽  
Nicola Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
The Future

Mobilising resiliency in times of economic hardship: Emerging themes in migrant worker remittance payments

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-167
Author(s):  
Kevin Garlan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Priority Areas ◽  
Mobile Payments ◽  
Payment Methods ◽  
The Future ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

This paper analyses the nexus of the global financial crisis and the remittance markets of Mexico and India, along with introducing new and emerging payment technologies that will help facilitate the growth of remittances worldwide. Overall resiliency is found in most markets but some are impacted differently by economic hardship. With that we also explore the area of emerging payment methods and how they can help nations weather this economic strife. Mobile payments are highlighted as one of the priority areas for the future of transferring monetary funds, and we assess their ability to further facilitate global remittances.

Remembering the Past/Anticipating the Future: A Professor From the White Working Class Talks With a Survivor of the Holocaust About Our Troubled World

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 323-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Ellis ◽  
Jerry Rawicki
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future ◽  
White Working Class ◽  
Shed Light

This article extends the research of Jerry Rawicki and Carolyn Ellis who have collaborated for more than eight years on memories and consequences of the Holocaust. Focusing on Jerry’s memories of his experience during the Holocaust, they present dialogues that took place during five recorded interviews and follow-up conversations that reflect on the similarity of Hitler’s seizing of power in the 1930s to the meteoric rise of Donald Trump. Noting how issues of class and race were taking an increasingly prominent role in their conversations and collaborative writing, they also begin to examine discontent in the rural, White working class and Carolyn’s socialization within that community. These dialogues and reflections seek to shed light on the current political climate in America as Carolyn and Jerry struggle to cope with their fears and envision a hopeful path forward for their country.

Punk, class, and taste in Desert Island Discs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Webb
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Desert Island ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Uk

This chapter attempts to use popular music as a way of connecting a number of castaways who shared a similar love of punk and post-punk and who described certain experiences that their appreciation of that music had resonance with. The music is used as a starting point to trace the experiences of the castaways to wider sets of social, cultural, and political histories of the UK. Among the castaways chosen are Kathy Burke, Ian Rankin, Ricky Gervais, and Hanif Kureshi. Each of these had a working-class upbringing and Kureshi grew up in a working-class area with parents who had been well off in India before moving to the UK. The choice of music intertwines with their descriptions of economic hardship, domestic violence, and racism but also a developed sense of community, sensitivity, and humanism that illustrates a sector of British life in the 1950s through to the 1980s.

Concluding remarks

2018 ◽  
pp. 271-279
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Common Concern ◽  
The Future ◽  
British Labour ◽  
Different Levels

The conclusion begins with an overview of the way the chapters in the volume have offered an exploration of three different levels of conflict – intra-organisational tensions, tensions which exist between different types of organisations, and tensions between labour organisations and spontaneous working-class protests – to collectively provide explanations to the paradoxes affecting the Labour movement. It then stresses the benefits of the volume’s integrated and multidisciplinary approach of the labour movement, underlining the fact that the contributors share a common concern for the future of the British labour movement. In the following section the conclusion ponders the future prospects for the labour movement and the Labour Party, sketching a number of possible scenarios. It stresses the fact that visions of the future differ according to political positioning. It then highlights the shared conviction of the contributors that class remains relevant as an analytical tool.

Conclusion

Never Trump ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 240-248
Author(s):  
Robert P. Saldin ◽  
Steven M. Teles
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Western World ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
New Era ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

This concluding chapter highlights how the Republican Party has been substantially transformed by the experience of having Donald Trump at its head. The president's reelection in 2020 would only deepen that transformation. Deep sociological forces—in particular, a Republican Party base that is increasingly white, working class, Christian, less formally educated, and older—will lead the party to go where its voters are. What Trump started, his Republican successors will finish. Just as parties of the right across the Western world have become more populist and nationalist, so will the Republicans. That, of course, bodes poorly for most of the Never Trumpers, who combined a deep distaste for Trump personally with a professional interest in a less populist governing style and a disinclination to see their party go ideologically where he wanted to take it. Ultimately, the future is unwritten because it will be shaped by the choices of individuals. Never Trump will have failed comprehensively in its founding mission, which was to prevent the poison of Donald Trump from entering the nation's political bloodstream. However, it is likely to be seen, in decades to come, as the first foray into a new era of American politics.

Prospectus for International Colloquium on Tradition and the Working Class

1992 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Tilly ◽  
Noëlle Gérôme
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
International Colloquium ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Tradition ◽  
Cultural Discontinuities ◽  
Influence Behavior

Tradition is understood as a subset of a central historical concern: social and cultural discontinuities in time and space. The historical study of social tradition is an important contribution to knowledge; it seeks to understand the ways in which groups (states, classes, communities, families) formalize, symbolize, and interpret the past—and how such visions shape the ways in which people interpret, accept, or resist present conditions and influence behavior in the future.

The Working Class in the Future of the Third World

1973 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Sandbrook
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Third World ◽  
Social Force ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
The Third World

The historical role of the working class has recently been subject to reassessment. Frequently repudiated are the Marxist views that the proletariat constitutes either, as Marx's and Engels' classic scheme would have it, the revolutionary social force in capitalist societies, or, as Lenin believed, the pre-eminent element in a revolutionary alliance with the poorest strata of the peasantry, or, finally, as Mao holds, the leadership cadres needed to mobilize the downtrodden peasant masses into conscious, revolutionary action. Consider, for instance, the meager role attributed to the working class in Barrington Moore's brilliant effort, in Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, to delineate three historical routes to modernity.

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