Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society. By Peter Stead. (London: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1989. xi plus 283 pp. $47.50)

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-661
Author(s):  
L. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
American Society

Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society.

1991 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 1155
Author(s):  
Clayton R. Koppes ◽  
Peter Stead
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
American Society

scholarly journals Ideological Domination: Deconstructing the Paradox of the American Dream and the Working Class Promise

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Stoneman
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
American Dream ◽  
American Society

The “American Dream” and “Working Class Promise” ideologies are ubiquitously dispersed in American society. These ideologies posit values of equality and opportunity. In this paper, I deconstruct these two ideologies in order to examine the effects these ideologies have on income inequality, social inequality, and social immobility. I argue these ideologies create a paradox in society whereby the more theseideologies are believed, the more the ideologies exacerbate income inequality, social inequality, and social immobility.

What Can We Do About It?

2018 ◽  
pp. 158-208
Author(s):  
Nicholas Carnes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Society ◽  
Democratic Elections ◽  
Seed Money

This chapter uses what has been learned about America's cash ceiling in the previous chapters to sort through the various reform proposals that observers have floated throughout the years. Some are essentially pipe dreams: they would work, but they are completely infeasible (like quotas for working-class politicians or replacing democratic elections in the United States with government by lottery). Others are long shots, ideas that would probably help, but would take decades to execute and would require massive changes to American society. The interventions that seem to have the most promise are reforms that specifically target working-class people and directly address the resource and recruitment gaps that elections naturally create—reforms like political scholarships, seed money programs, and candidate training programs.

Working-Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society

1983 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 635
Author(s):  
Robert H. Zieger ◽  
Michael H. Frisch ◽  
Daniel J. Walkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
American Society
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