Classless and Clueless in NWSA: A History of the Poor and Working Class Caucus

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.

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Illegal Migration in Tunisian Rap

Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies ◽

10.30958/ajms.7-1-3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 45-58

Author(s):

Mohamed Chamekh

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Illegal Migration ◽

History Of ◽

Political Conditions ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Legislative Measures ◽

The Eu

This article explores illegal migration through Tunisian rap. It considers this music an aspect of resistance and protest against the socio-economic and political conditions obliging thousands of Tunisians to cross the Mediterranean in makeshift boats in search of better prospects and challenging the increasing security and legislative measures crippling mobility imposed by the EU and Tunisian authorities. This article contends that harga songs document the history of the working class in Tunisia and carve the identity of harraga as people who have been marginalised for generations. It concludes that EU-Tunisia security talks and dialogues remain ineffective as long as the root causes of illegal migration have not been addressed. Keywords: illegal migration, Tunisian rap, resistance, marginalization, security, immobility, identity

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Abdullah Quilliam

10.1093/oso/9780190688349.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mohammad Siddique Seddon

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Political Activism ◽

Working Classes ◽

Political Influences ◽

Union Movement ◽

The Poor ◽

Conversion To Islam ◽

Class Struggles ◽

Legal Advisor ◽

Shed Light

This chapter explores the religious and political influences that shaped Abdullah Quilliam’s Muslim missionary activities, philanthropic work and scholarly writings in an attempt to shed light on his particular political convictions as manifest through his unique religiopolitical endeavors. It focuses especially on Quilliam’s Methodist upbringing in Liverpool and his support of the working classes. It argues that Quilliam’s religious and political activism, although primarily inspired by his conversion to Islam, was also shaped and influenced by the then newly emerging proletariat, revolutionary socialism. Quilliam’s continued commitment to the burgeoning working-class trades union movement, both as a leading member representative and legal advisor, coupled with his reputation as the "poor man’s lawyer" because of his frequent fee-free representations for the impoverished, demonstrates his empathetic proximity to working-class struggles.

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Working-Class Fictions

10.1093/oso/9780198749394.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Nicola Wilson

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Social Realism ◽

Cultural Significance ◽

Reading Public ◽

Industrial Community ◽

Working People ◽

History Of ◽

Post War ◽

The Individual ◽

Exciting Wave

This chapter explores why working-class fictions flourished in the period from the late 1950s through to the early 1970s and the distinctive contributions that they made to the post-war British and Irish novel. These writers of working-class fiction were celebrated for their bold, socially realistic, and often candid depictions of the lives and desires of ordinary working people. Their works were seen to herald a new and exciting wave of gritty social realism. The narrative focus on the individual signalled a shift in the history of working-class writing away from the plot staples of strikes and the industrial community, striking a chord with a post-war reading public keen to see ordinary lives represented in books in a complex and realistic manner. The cultural significance of such novels was enhanced as they were adapted in quick succession for a mass cinema audience by a group of radical film-makers.

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The History of ‘the Reading Public’

10.1093/oso/9780198800170.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Stefan Collini

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Change ◽

Working Class ◽

Literary History ◽

Reading Public ◽

Reading Matter ◽

History Of ◽

Victorian Periodicals

This chapter argues that accounts of ‘the reading public’ are always fundamentally historical, usually involving stories of ‘growth’ or ‘decline’. It examines Q. D. Leavis’s Fiction and the Reading Public, which builds a relentlessly pessimistic critique of the debased standards of the present out of a highly selective account of literature and its publics since the Elizabethan period. It goes on to exhibit the complicated analysis of the role of previous publics in F. R. Leavis’s revisionist literary history, including his ambivalent admiration for the great Victorian periodicals. And it shows how Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy carries an almost buried interpretation of social change from the nineteenth century onwards, constantly contrasting the vibrant and healthy forms of entertainment built up in old working-class communities with the slick, commercialized reading matter introduced by post-1945 prosperity.

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Mary Barton

10.1093/owc/9780199538355.001.0001 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Elizabeth Gaskell

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Elizabeth Gaskell ◽

Class Conflict ◽

The Novel ◽

The Poor ◽

Deep Sympathy ◽

The Relationship ◽

Class Community

‘It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.’ Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself: a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, she becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront her true feelings and allegiances. Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect.

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Labor Movements in Latin America

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190926557.013.21 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Federico M. Rossi

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Working Class ◽

Latin American ◽

Trade Unions ◽

Labor Movements ◽

Relational Approach ◽

Informal Workers ◽

History Of ◽

American Labor

The history of Latin America cannot be understood without analyzing the role played by labor movements in organizing formal and informal workers across urban and rural contexts.This chapter analyzes the history of labor movements in Latin America from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. After debating the distinction between “working class” and “popular sectors,” the chapter proposes that labor movements encompass more than trade unions. The history of labor movements is analyzed through the dynamics of globalization, incorporation waves, revolutions, authoritarian breakdowns, and democratization. Taking a relational approach, these macro-dynamics are studied in connection with the main revolutionary and reformist strategic disputes of the Latin American labor movements.

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