scholarly journals The working class left behind? The class gap in life satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland over the last decades

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Lipps ◽  
Daniel Oesch
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Left Behind

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Harris Beider ◽  
Kusminder Chahal
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Detailed Understanding ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
White Working Class

This concluding chapter addresses the issues of defining white working-class communities; the challenges of choosing a president; the importance of qualitative data and lived experiences in revealing a granular and detailed understanding of macro-changes in society; and the prospects of cross-racial coalition building. Looking ahead to the 2020 presidential elections and beyond, the chapter questions whether policymakers and researchers will learn from the messages of this research and others about the lived experiences of white working-class communities and their own sense of being left behind. The chapter then argues for a radical overhaul of the way in which white working-class communities are discussed, engaged with, and represented by policymakers and political organizations. Returning to the context of rising populism across the globe, white working-class communities cannot simply be ignored. Rather the white working class should be considered to be as diverse as any other group, an important legacy population, and a community that has a range of views shaped by location, politics, and culture. This opens up the prospect of exciting possibilities for research, policy, practice, and coalition building.

Geopolitical Upheavals: Brexit and Trump

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahesh K. Joshi ◽  
J.R. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
External Forces ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Voice

Over recent years, investments had been going down, living standards had deteriorated, and inequality had risen. The underlying disaffection was picked up by Brexit and the Trump campaigns. Although these problems were not the inevitable results of globalization, but rather of domestic policy choices influenced by flawed economic theories, these populist standard bearers exploited it by blaming those challenges on external forces, including globalization. The Brexit vote and the election of Trump can be considered as the voice of the economically “left behind,” a protest by working-class voters at the impact of globalization on their jobs and living standards.

Moderating role of hope in the relationship between perceived discrimination and life satisfaction among left-behind children in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ran Zhang ◽  
Luming Zhao ◽  
Xiaochen Han ◽  
Shengjun Wu ◽  
Xufeng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Perceived Discrimination ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Children’S Hope Scale

We examined the moderating role of hope in the relationship between perceived discrimination and life satisfaction among left-behind children in China. Participants were 588 left-behind pupils at three rural primary schools, who completed the Children's Hope Scale, the Perceived Discrimination Questionnaire of the Left-Behind Children, and the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale. Results show that there were significant correlations between the perceived discrimination, hope, and life satisfaction of our participants. In addition, hope significantly alleviated the negative effect of perceived discrimination on life satisfaction. We can conclude that perceived discrimination and hope both significantly predicted life satisfaction, and hope moderated the effect of perceived discrimination on life satisfaction among left-behind children in China. Our findings have implications for school teachers and social workers to help reduce left-behind children's hurt resulting from perceived discrimination.

Child Neglect and Life Satisfaction among Left-behind Children in Rural China: The Roles of Self-compassion and Gratitude

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110163
Author(s):  
Huiping Zhang ◽  
Yali Li
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Child Neglect ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Shanxi Province ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Self Compassion

Child neglect is a social problem that causes great concern and affects the long-term well-being of left-behind rural Chinese children against the backdrop of their parents having to leave them in the care of others for extended periods while they have to go and work in cities. However, previous studies have disproportionally focused on the negative processes through which child neglect may influence their life satisfaction. Guided by positive psychology, this study examined the role of self-compassion and gratitude on the association between child neglect and life satisfaction. Our research questionnaire Likert survey used a sample of 1,091 left-behind children and 754 non left-behind children from Shanxi Province and Hunan Province. The results indicated that left-behind children reported a higher level of child neglect, and that child neglect was negatively associated with left-behind children’s life satisfaction through decreased self-compassion and gratitude. The implications of these findings are that policy measures and interventions that focus on increasing the self-compassion and gratitude of neglected left-behind children may have a positive effect on their life satisfaction.

scholarly journals Bullying victimization and life satisfaction among rural left-behind children in Central China: a cross-sectional study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yide Yang ◽  
Chan-juan Zheng ◽  
Yanhui Dong ◽  
Ya-qin Zhang ◽  
Ming Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Combined Effect ◽  
School Satisfaction ◽  
Central China ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Bullying Victimization ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Group B

Abstract Background: Parental migration has many detrimental health impacts on children. This study described the associations between bullying victimization and life satisfaction among left-behind children(LBC), and examined the interactive effects of left behind experience and bullying victimization on life satisfaction. Methods: Students from first to ninth grade in Central China participated in the present study. Life satisfaction were assessed by Chinese version of revised Bully/Victim Questionnaire and Multidimensional students’ life satisfaction scale(MSLSS). Results: A total of 1013 children were investigated, of which 42.5% were left-behind. We found LBC had a significantly 45% higher risk of being teased in a hurtful way than the non-LBC(OR=1.45, 95%CI: 1.10~1.91), and the LBC had lower self-satisfaction than the non-LBC(b=-0.14, P =0.017). Being teased was only associated with self-satisfaction, and other bullying victimization behaviors had significant impact on all dimensions of life satisfaction( P <0.05). We identified an interactive effect between left behind experience and bullying victimization on school satisfaction( P interaction =0.015), bullying was significantly related with lower school satisfaction in the LBC group(b=-0.69, P <0.001), but no association in the non-LBC group. Also, there was a combined effect between left behind experience and bullying victimization on environment satisfaction( P interaction >0.05), bullying was significantly related with lower environment satisfaction in the LBC group(b=-0.31, P =0.033), while no association was observed in the non-LBC group. Conclusion: There is an interaction of left behind experience and bullying victimization on school satisfaction and a combined effect on environment satisfaction. Left behind experience could significantly amplify the associations between bullying victimization and school satisfaction/environment satisfaction.

The Anger and Energy of Gary Mitchell

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connal Parr
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
White Working Class

Born and brought up on the overwhelmingly Protestant Rathcoole housing estate, Gary Mitchell explored the fragmentation of Ulster Loyalism during the era of the peace process in his key plays and continues to mine the disillusionment and travails of the Protestant working class across Northern Ireland. The Rathcoole focus highlights the dying embers of the Labour movement which carried on in Newtownabbey while the rest of the Northern Ireland Labour Party had faded away, a spirit embodied by the independent councillor Mark Langhammer. Though Mitchell was forced to leave Rathcoole in 2005, he continues to grapple with the strains of working-class Protestant communities in the form of policing tensions, identity questions, and a growing underclass (or ‘precariat’) which considers itself—like other white working-class groups—‘left behind’ by politicians and deindustrialization.

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