British Television's Lost New Wave Moment: Single Drama and Race

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 612-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Liarou
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Black Population ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Audiovisual Material ◽  
British Drama ◽  
History Of ◽  
White Working Class ◽  
Written Sources

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.

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

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 229-258 ◽  
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.

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

1980 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 653
Author(s):  
Alice Kessler-Harris ◽  
Susan Estabrook Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
History Of ◽  
White Working Class ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
At Home

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

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

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.

Knocking on Labor's Door

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lane Windham
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Political System ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
New Wave ◽  
History Of

The power of unions in workers’ lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued that the crisis took root when unions stopped reaching out to workers and workers turned away from unions. But here Lane Windham tells a different story. Highlighting the integral, often-overlooked contributions of women, people of color, young workers, and southerners, Windham reveals how in the 1970s workers combined old working-class tools--like unions and labor law--with legislative gains from the civil and women’s rights movements to help shore up their prospects. Through close-up studies of workers' campaigns in shipbuilding, textiles, retail, and service, Windham overturns widely held myths about labor’s decline, showing instead how employers united to manipulate weak labor law and quash a new wave of worker organizing. Recounting how employees attempted to unionize against overwhelming opposition from bosses and corporations, Knocking on Labor's Door dramatically refashions the narrative of labor and politics during a crucial decade and remaps the recent history of the American workplace. Windham's story inspires both hope and indignation, and will become a must-read in labor, civil rights, and women’s history.

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

1980 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 992
Author(s):  
Philip S. Foner ◽  
Susan Estabrook Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
History Of ◽  
White Working Class ◽  
At Home

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

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.

Poor Man's Fortune

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.

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