If All We Did Was to Weep at Home: A History of White Working-Class Woimen in America

The article argues that the working-class realism of post-WWII British television single drama is neither as English nor as white as is often implied. The surviving audiovisual material and written sources (reviews, publicity material, biographies of television writers and directors) reveal ITV's dynamic role in offering a range of views and representations of Britain's black population and their multi-layered relationship with white working-class cultures. By examining this neglected history of postwar British drama, this article argues for more inclusive historiographies of British television and sheds light on the dynamism and diversity of British television culture.

The Ordeal of Assimilation: A Documentary History of the White Working Class

Sociological Analysis ◽

10.2307/3710377 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 283

Author(s):

Murray Binderman ◽

Stanley Feldstein ◽

Lawrence Costello

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Documentary History ◽

History Of ◽

White Working Class

Fathering Orphans

10.5406/illinois/9780252036903.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jessie B. Ramey

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

African American ◽

Child Care ◽

Working Class ◽

Family Life ◽

The United States ◽

History Of ◽

White Working Class

This chapter begins with the James Caldwell story, which brings the experience of fathers into sharp relief—a significant, and all but forgotten, aspect of orphanage history—as well as the broader history of child care, in the United States. While many orphanage children had living fathers, the institutional managers constructed “orphans” as fatherless, perpetuating a gendered and racialized logic of dependency. Yet for those men using the orphanages as a form of child care, their experiences as widowers differed from those of solo women with children. Furthermore, the experiences of African American and white working-class men were also quite different. Ultimately, the orphanages help reveal the extent to which each group of men was involved with the care of their children, as well as the connection between their breadwinning role and family life.

Understanding white working-class female experiences of progression into a UK Russell Group Institution

Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning ◽

10.5456/wpll.23.1.31 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 31-53

Author(s):

Vanessa Todman

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Working Class ◽

Social Mobility ◽

Support Groups ◽

Barriers And Enablers ◽

White Working Class ◽

University Participation ◽

Barriers And Motivators ◽

At Home

When looking at barriers to social mobility, the experience of white working-class females and the choices they make when applying to university is under-researched, though it is touched upon through intersections of gender, ethnicity and class. This paper presents findings from qualitative research with students who identified as white, working-class and female, studying at a London-based Russell Group university. It explores the barriers and enablers they experienced in making the decision to go to university. The analysis highlighted three factors: (1) Circumstances at home often influenced their decision, representing both barriers and motivators. (2) They experienced a lack of support from schools and support but minimal resources within their family. (3) Lack of self-belief merged with a desire to prove themselves influenced their actions. The findings of this research suggest that this group has needs and barriers which practitioners should consider when trying to encourage university participation. These include: strengthening support groups, articulating both the unusual journeys this group may take to university and the benefits of different journeys and courses in a salient way, helping them to feel like they belong at university before they start and encouraging them to ask for help.

White Workers in the Late Apartheid Period: A Report on the Wiehahn Commission and Mineworkers’ Union Archival Collections

History in Africa ◽

10.1017/hia.2015.29 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

pp. 229-258 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Black Population ◽

Racial Privilege ◽

History Of ◽

White Working Class ◽

Labour Legislation ◽

White Workers ◽

High Politics

Abstract:This paper offers a critique of the existing historiography on the late apartheid period, arguing that white workers’ role in and experience of the unraveling of racial privilege in the labor arena has been obscured by a focus on the high politics of reform and on anti-apartheid resistance emanating from African labor and the broader black population. Reporting from the archive, it discusses two under-utilized archival collections – that of the Commission of Inquiry into Labour Legislation and of the Mineworkers’ Union – as sources for starting to write white working-class organization, politics, identity, and experience into the history of reform and resistance, thereby adding a new dimension to South Africa’s broadly conceived struggle history.

Making Blanket Statements: Rethinking the History and Politics of American Social Class

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875818001524 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 280-286

Author(s):

ANDREW SEAL

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Working Class ◽

American History ◽

White People ◽

White Trash ◽

History Of ◽

White Working Class

In Joan C. Williams's White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America and Nancy Isenberg's White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, the reader will find a nation riven by abiding class prejudice. Both have written explicitly with the goal of forcing readers to confront the deep, ugly, and ultimately destructive effects of elite snobbery towards working-class or impoverished white people. They both believe that educated readers tend to minimize or ignore how much class matters and has mattered in American history and to deny their own class biases; these books are meant to make that denial harder to sustain.

Writing the history of black and white working class women

Women s Studies ◽

10.1080/00497878.1989.9978788 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 17 (1-2) ◽

pp. 37-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lois Rita Helmbold

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Black And White ◽

History Of ◽

White Working Class ◽

Working Class Women

Poor Man's Fortune

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656298.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jarod Roll

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Working Class ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Decisive Role ◽

White Men ◽

Close Study ◽

History Of ◽

White Working Class ◽

Successive Generations ◽

Justice Movements

White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man’s Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal.With painstaking research, Roll shows how the miners' choices reflected a deep-seated, durable belief that hard-working American white men could prosper under capitalism, and exposes the grim costs of this view for these men and their communities, for organized labor, and for political movements seeking a more just and secure society. Roll's story shows how American inequalities are in part the result of a white working-class conservative tradition driven by grassroots assertions of racial, gendered, and national privilege.