Social Class in Modern Britain
Social Class in Modern Britain

Author: Gordon Marshall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-10

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1134858930

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The book incorporates three alternative conceptions of class. Erik Olin Wright's structural Marxist account is set alongside John Goldthorpe's occupational class schema, and the Registrar-General's prestige and skill-related categories. The authors use their unique data on inequality and conflict in contemporary Britain to provide, for the first time, a rigourous comparison of Marxist, sociological and official class frameworks. The book ranges widely across such topics as sectionalism in the workforce; privatism of families and individuals; fatalism; gender and class processes; sectoral production and consumption cleavages. The authors conclude that class is still crucial in structuring economic, political and social life.

Class in Britain
Class in Britain

Author: David Cannadine

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2000-03-30

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 0140249540

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David Cannadine's unique history examines the British preoccupation with class and the different ways the British have thought about their own society. From the eighteenth through the twentieth century, he traces the different ways British society has been viewed, unveiling the different purposes each model has served. This is a social, intellectual and political history and a powerful account of how and why class has shaped British identity.

Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain
Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain

Author: John H. Goldthorpe

Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13:

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The second edition of this classic study includes an analysis of recent trends in intergenerational mobility, the class mobility of women, and social mobility in modern Britain.

The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain
The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain

Author: David Cannadine

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780231096669

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In this wholly original and brilliantly argued book, the author shows that Britons have indeed been preoccupied with class, but in ways that are invariably ignorant and confused.

The Making of the English Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class

Author: Edward Palmer Thompson

Publisher: IICA

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 866

ISBN-13:

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This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.

Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain
Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain

Author: David Forrest

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1137555068

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This collection is a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary British television drama and its representations of social class. Through early studio-set plays, soap operas and period drama, the volume demonstrates how class provides a bridge across multiple genres and traditions of television drama. The authors trace this thematic emphasis into the present day, offering fascinating new insights into the national conversation around class and identity in Britain today. The chapters engage with a range of topics including authorial explorations of Stephen Poliakoff and Jimmy McGovern, case studies of television performers Maxine Peake and Jimmy Nail, and discussions of the sitcom genre and animation form. This book offers new perspectives on popular British television shows such as Goodnight Sweetheart and Footballers’ Wives, and analysis of more recent series such as Peaky Blinders and This is England.

The social structure of modern Britain
The social structure of modern Britain

Author: Edward Alistair Johns

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Study of the social structure of the UK - covers demographic aspects (incl. Population and fertility trends, mortality, immigration, etc.), the family structure, the social role and social status of women (incl. Married women and the woman worker), marriage and divorce, social stratification, leisure, education, social control (incl. In respect of crime), religious practices, etc. Bibliography pp. 195 and 196, references and statistical tables.

Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960
Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960

Author: Prof Joanna Bourke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-01-28

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1134858582

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Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the 'working class' in Britain has been maintained through seventy years of radical social, cultural and economic change. She argues that class identity is essentially a social and cultural rather than an institutional or political phenomenon and therefore cannot be understood without constant reference to gender and ethnicity. Each self contained chapter consists of an essay of historical analysis, introducing students to the ways historians use evidence to understand change, as well as useful chronologies, statistics and tables, suggested topics for discussion, and selective further reading.

The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction
The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction

Author: Phil O'Brien

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1000763285

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The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction looks at how the twenty-first-century British novel has explored contemporary working-class life. Studying the works of David Peace, Gordon Burn, Anthony Cartwright, Ross Raisin, Jenni Fagan, and Sunjeev Sahota, the book shows how they have mapped the shift from deindustrialisation through to stigmatization of individuals and communities who have experienced profound levels of destabilization and unemployment. O'Brien argues that these novels offer ways of understanding fundamental aspects of contemporary capitalism for the working class in modern Britain, including, class struggle, inequality, trauma, social abjection, racism, and stigmatization, exclusively looking at British working-class literature of the twenty-first century.