The White Working Class, Union Households, and Trade: Did the Trump Coalition Endure?
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DOI: 10.1007/s12115-020-00553-9
Abstract: Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election caught many political experts by surprise. Looking to uncover the reasons for this unexpected outcome, social scientists presented several explanations in the election’s aftermath. In this article,… read more here.
Keywords: white working; working class; union households; election ... See more keywords
Workers and the Right Wing: the Situation in India
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DOI: 10.1017/s0147547917000333
Abstract: Abstract Why and how does a right-wing social movement mobilize workers along class lines? The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), the labor wing of the Hindu nationalist movement in India, marshals working-class support by emphasizing workers’… read more here.
Keywords: working class; class; workers right; wing situation ... See more keywords
Response to Christopher Ellis’ review of The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592718003341
Abstract: The reasons for that apparent shift are not difficult to discern. From the 1960s onwards, and especially after Thatcherism came to power, the working class on which the Labour party had depended for most of… read more here.
Keywords: review new; working class; class; response christopher ... See more keywords
Achievement is not class-neutral: Working together benefits people from working-class contexts.
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DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000194
Abstract: Previous research has documented that people from working-class contexts have fewer skills linked to academic success than their middle-class counterparts (e.g., worse problem-solving skills). Challenging this idea, we propose that one reason why people from… read more here.
Keywords: working class; class; working together; class contexts ... See more keywords
Education and working-class youth: reshaping the politics of inclusion
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DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2019.1682275
Abstract: This book critically considers the dominant influence of social class on the educational experiences of working-class youth in the UK and elsewhere. As captured in the cover image, the text represents education as a cauldron… read more here.
Keywords: class; class youth; working class; education working ... See more keywords
Class acts? Working class student officers in students’ unions
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DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2019.1707066
Abstract: Abstract This article explores the recent emergence of ‘working-class student officer’ roles in students’ unions associated with elite UK universities. These student representative roles are designed to represent the interests of working-class students within their… read more here.
Keywords: working class; class; students unions; class student ... See more keywords
Time and money explain social class differences in students’ social integration at university
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DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1045481
Abstract: Working-class students tend to be less socially integrated at university than middle-class students. The present research investigated two potential reasons for this working-class social exclusion effect. First, working-class students may have fewer finances available to… read more here.
Keywords: working class; class; class students; social integration ... See more keywords
Genesea M. Carter and William H. Thelin, eds. Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Class. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2017. 363 pages. $39.95 paperback.
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DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2018.1497890
Abstract: I sit down to write this review at a fraught moment for talking about class, and especially the working class. On Facebook, many friends are discussing a recent Equality of Opportunity Project report that provides… read more here.
Keywords: class; carter thelin; working class; pedagogy ... See more keywords
What’s the Matter with College? Exploring White Working-Class Resentment Towards Higher Education
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DOI: 10.1080/07393148.2018.1488095
Abstract: The politics of resentment: rural consciousness in Wisconsin and the rise of Scott Walker, by Katherine Cramer, Chicago and London,ISBN 13: 978-0-226-34911-4 The University of Chicago Press, 2016, 285 pp., $30.00 (Paperback) Dream hoarders: how… read more here.
Keywords: working class; class; white working; isbn 978 ... See more keywords
‘Altering the structure of society’: an institutional focus on Virginia Woolf and working-class education in the 1930s
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DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2017.1280075
Abstract: ABSTRACT Where previous analyses of Virginia Woolf’s relationship to working-class education by Melba Cuddy-Keane and Beth Rigel Daugherty have focused on the role of the public library and Woolf’s Common Reader essays, this article explores… read more here.
Keywords: working class; woolf; class education; virginia woolf ... See more keywords
Petticoats and pickhandles: suffrage and socialism in gendered resistance to empire and mining capitalism
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DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1770106
Abstract: abstract I recount the story of Mary Fitzgerald, a working-class Irish immigrant whose feminist and socialist identity emerge in the contest with capitalism on the Witwatersrand following the Boer War. Her life story in the… read more here.
Keywords: working class; mining; empire; capitalism ... See more keywords