scholarly journals From the Working-Class Movement to the New Social Movements

2017 ◽  
pp. 41-67
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Working Class ◽  
New Social Movements

Engaged History

1994 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 81-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Stein
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Labor History ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Labor Movements ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs

Ira Katznelson urges labor historians to respond to a crisis in their field by returning to political, institutional, and state-centered history. This state of affairs has come about, he and others tell us, because of the dual challenge of “new social movements” and then the decline of labor movements, the crisis of social democracy, and collapse of communist states. Labor history is in crisis, he concludes, because class no longer provides the best categories with which to describe the world and the working class is no longer the principal historical actor.

scholarly journals Fueling the Populist Divide: Nativist and Cosmopolitan Preferences for Representation at the Elite and Mass Level

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosie Campbell ◽  
Oliver Heath
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Mass Level ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

AbstractAlthough populist leaders often employ an anti-elite discourse which presents the elite as unable or unwilling to represent ordinary citizens, we know very little about who elites actually think should be represented, or how this differs, if at, all from what ordinary citizens want. In this article we find that there is a considerable difference between the groups that voters want to see represented in parliament and those which political elites want to see represented. In particular, we find that political elites tend to hold far more ‘cosmopolitan’ preferences than ordinary voters, and prioritize the representation of greater diversity in parliament based on the groups politicised by the new social movements and identity politics of the 60s and 70s, such as women, ethnic minorities, LGBT and the disabled. By contrast, voters more often hold nativist preferences than political elites and more often prioritize the representation of groups such as the working class, and white local people. Moreover, British voters who hold nativist preferences of political representation are more likely to be politically alienated and more likely to support Brexit.

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