‘Hoping you’ll give me some guidance about this thing called money’: the Daily Mirror and personal finance, c. 1960–81

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilwyn Porter
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Personal Savings ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Investment Advice ◽  
Over Time

In the 1960s the Daily Mirror ran a weekly feature offering financial and investment advice about stocks and shares and it dealt with thousands of letters a year about financial matters from readers who found its advice more accessible and less intimidating than speaking to financial professionals. The social optimism of the sixties dissipated in the 1970s, however, as the economic situation deteriorated and the Daily Mirror’s financial advice had to adapt to a climate in which its own circulation was declining and as its core readership started to age the column became more conservative, dealing with queries from older readers and worries about unemployment, and focusing more on ‘mitigating’ the effects of inflation and redundancy payments. Porter argues that the Daily Mirror had, in fact, misinterpreted its readers’ interest in ‘popular capitalism’ during full employment and rising living standards in the 1960s, when its advocacy of financial investment reflected contemporary beliefs that the values and aspirations of the working-class were changing, with greater opportunities to borrow, save and spend. As he points out, its financial journalists were forced over time to adapt to more pragmatic queries about family budgeting and personal savings rather than focusing on larger investments.

scholarly journals Social Class Origin and Assortative Mating in Britain, 1949–2010

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 1217-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Henz ◽  
Colin Mills
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Origin ◽  
To Come ◽  
Similar Class ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Level Aspect ◽  
Over Time

This article examines trends in assortative mating in Britain over the last 60 years. Assortative mating is the tendency for like to form a conjugal partnership with like. Our focus is on the association between the social class origins of the partners. The propensity towards assortative mating is taken as an index of the openness of society which we regard as a macro level aspect of social inequality. There is some evidence that the propensity for partners to come from similar class backgrounds declined during the 1960s. Thereafter, there was a period of 40 years of remarkable stability during which the propensity towards assortative mating fluctuated trendlessly within quite narrow limits. This picture of stability over time in social openness parallels the well-established facts about intergenerational social class mobility in Britain.

scholarly journals Writing the sixties

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Αναστασία Οικονομίδου
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
British Society ◽  
John Fowles ◽  
Margaret Drabble ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
The 1960S

This thesis examines how changes in gender relations occurring in the British society of the 1960s were depicted in the fiction of the period. In particular, it analyses the specific gender representations found in the work of Kingsley Amis, John Fowles and Margaret Drabble. By locating the major differences in the way gender is inscribed in the work of the above authors it raises the question of the role of the gender and ideological position of the writers in the establishment of their perspective. The analysis revolves round the central question of the relation between literature and its context. Therefore, it situates the novels in question within the social, ideological and literary context of the time when they were produced and, through a detailed textual analysis, it delineates the multiple and complex ways in which the particular fictions engage with their context. The first chapter offers an account of the social and ideological context of the sixties by concentrating on three particular areas: legislative changes, ideological debates and the emergence of radical movements. The second chapter establishes the critical perspective from which the novels are approached by situating it within the broader framework of contemporary schools of feminist literary criticism. The third, fourth and fifth chapters are devoted to a textual analysis of three major novels by each of the three authors.

Discipline for the Unemployed; Laissez-Faire for Business (1873–1920)

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-38
Author(s):  
Frank Stricker
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Federal Spending ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
Charity Organization ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Over Time

There was virtually no federal spending to counteract five major depressions or substantial unemployment in between. Unemployed people received almost no public or private assistance, and they were the target of nasty stereotypes. This chapter analyzes those who promoted negative views, including classical economists who claimed that unregulated markets tended to produce full employment, and charity organization leaders like Josephine Shaw Lowell who believed that poor people needed to be disciplined. The chapter also discusses defenders of the working class, including economist John Commons and reformer Jacob Coxey, who wanted public works for the unemployed. Over time more policy-makers gained a compassionate and scientific comprehension of unemployment, but federal policy in 1920 was not very different from what it had been in 1880.

“Raw Power”: Protopunk Transformations of the Blues

Damaged ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 35-62
Author(s):  
Evan Rapport
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
White Flight ◽  
Great Migration ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Social Upheaval

Punk’s musical style can be considered as beginning with the transformations to blues resources explored mostly by white baby boomers invested in the sixties counterculture, especially in the northern Midwest, such as the Stooges and the MC5. Their approaches to the blues were a response to the changing stakes of musical expressions of whiteness and Blackness during the 1960s, connected to the social upheaval surrounding so-called white flight to the suburbs and the Second Great Migration of African Americans from the South. Some similar approaches to the blues were also cultivated in New York among musicians such as the Velvet Underground. Their music emphasized riffs, limited harmonic movement, and other features which are described in this chapter as the “Raw Power” approach to punk. But despite punk’s deep musical roots in the blues, the discourse around punk served to obscure these connections.

scholarly journals The social movement concept under debate: from the sixties to the present day

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Resource Mobilization ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

Departing from the notion of social movement advanced by the theories of resource mobilization, political process and new social movements, the article aims to trace different analytical paths traversed by the studies on social movements and collective action. In this discussion it’s considered the hypothesis that over the past few decades, as the macro-structural approaches were giving way to contributions more focused on the micro-social processes and features of social movements, the debate around the concept of social movement may have lost the relevance assumed by earlier analysis developed during the 1960s and 1970s.

scholarly journals Cicero Versus Socrates: The Liberal Arts Debate in the 1960s at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus

2003 ◽  
pp. 101-129
Author(s):  
James M. Pitsula
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
New Left ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Student Power ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

The liberal arts debate among the faculty at Regina Campus in the 1960s reflected the social and political movements of the day, especially the rise of student power and the New Left. At the same time, it revived a much older debate about the nature of liberal education, which historian Bruce Kimball traces back to the thought of Socrates and Cicero. Kimball’s typology of “orators” versus “philosophers” brings order and clarity to what otherwise appears as a jumbled mix of conflicting viewpoints. The “oratorical” tradition favors general education based on knowable truth as a means to prepare youth for responsible and active citizenship. The “philosophical” or “liberal-free” ideal emphasizes the freedom to search for truth, an eternal quest that never attains its goal, and has led to the dominance of scientific research and the fragmentation of knowledge. The “orators” lost the sixties debate, and the “liberal-free” ideal is now almost uncontested.

scholarly journals Revolution in a Comic Strip: Gasparazzo and the Identity of Southern Migrants in Turin, 1969–1975

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (S15) ◽  
pp. 59-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Pizzolato
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Comic Strip ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cartoon Character ◽  
Southern Migrants

Between 1969 and 1975, in Turin, a social movement with migrants from southern Italy as its protagonists addressed the issues of working conditions in the automobile plants, and housing and living standards in the city's overcrowded working-class neighbourhoods. Southern migrants, from different regions and speaking sometimes mutually incomprehensible dialects, forged a collective identity as Meridionali – “southerners” – and claimed recognition as fully fledged citizens of Turin's industrial society. This identity-building was captured in the making through the satirical cartoons featuring Gasparazzo, the character of a southern worker at FIAT who struggled daily with the alienation of work, the arrogance of supervisors, the repression enforced by the police, and, back in the south, the backwardness of the social system. Although the publication of Gasparazzo ended abruptly in 1972 the qualities of the cartoon character continued to resonate in succeeding years. As militancy waned and the social movement started to crumble, Gasparazzo came to symbolize the nostalgic model of a working-class hero rather than any actual southerner in the plant.

scholarly journals The 1960s – long hair, flowers and morality mash: ethical appraisal of the clash that helped shape today’s Western society

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J.G. Zandman
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Image Of God

The 1960s will be remembered as a major clash that helped shape today’s Western society. Young people were breaking out of the moulds that had been cast by their parents’ post-war era. The conflict brought about significant social change all over Western society. Western man searched frantically for a new world, willing to risk the hardship of revolution.  In a world full of confusing and conflicting approaches in terms of how to view man, the Bible has the clear answer: man is created in the image of God, and is, in this capacity, God’s vice- regent and image-bearer. However, the Christian church is by- and-large remarkably indecisive as the social conscience of Western society.   The main thrust of the sixties was anti-status quo, anti-esta- blishment, anti-materialist. In the process of man’s self-deter- mination on either side of the conflict, great erosion of man’s greatest gift occurred: ethical distinction. The spiritual vacuum created by anti-establishment forces led to confusion and self- destruction.

GENDERED ACTIVISM: THE ANTI FRANCOIST STUDENT MOVEMENT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA IN THE 1960S AND 1970S

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 90-109
Author(s):  
Aurora Morcillo
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
General Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regulatory Law ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

This article focuses on the repression of the student movement in the University of Granada during the state of exception of 1970. It relates the experiences of two students, Socorro and Jesus, a couple who joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and suffered persecution and imprisonment. The Francoist university was governed by the University Regulatory Law (URL, University Regulatory Law) issued in 1943, which was replaced with the promulgation of the General Law of Education in 1970. As I explained in my previous work, the Catholic national rhetoric of the Franco regime forged an ideal "True Catholic Woman" based on the resurgence of the values ​​of purity and subordination of the 16th century counter reform as proposed by Luis Vives in The Instruction of the Christian Woman (1523) and Fray Luis de León in The Perfect Wife (1583). This ideal of a woman came to contradict the ideal of an intellectual built on the letter of the Ley de Ordenación Universitaria (1943). The transition to the consumer economy in the 1950s with the military and economic aid of the United States, as well as the social Catholicism of the Second Vatican Council in the sixties along with the arrival of tourism and emigration to Europe changed the social fabric and opened the doors of the classrooms to an increasing number of women, especially in the humanities careers of Philosophy and Letters. Through the analysis of interviews conducted in the late 1980s with two people who participated in the clandestine student movement, this article explores how young people transgressed the official discourse on the Catholic ideal of women, claimed the university environment for the working class and created a neutral space in terms of gender in which they could achieve their commitment to study, democratic freedom and feminism.

Teachers and Teaching: Tally's Corner Revisited

1991 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-96
Author(s):  
Burt Saxon
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Classroom Discussions ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Over Time

In this article, Burt Saxon relates how the values and beliefs he formed during his childhood in a small midwestern town changed over time as new experiences and influences challenged his initial perceptions. Saxon describes how his perspectives on ethnicity, race, education,and upward mobility evolved during twenty years of diverse discussions with urban high school students of Tally's Corner by Elliott Liebow. He chronicles how classroom discussions of this 1967 study of a group of Black "streetcorner" men and the social forces that shaped their lives changed dramatically from the 1960s through the 1980s. In this personal account, Saxon shares how his students influenced and deepened his own understanding of the relevance of Tally's Corner.

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