ISBN:
9780192540713
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Series Statement:
The Past and Present Book Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.5094209045
Keywords:
Social classes-Great Britain-History-20th century
;
Great Britain-Social conditions-20th century
;
Working class-Great Britain-History-20th century
;
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Abstract:
In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance. This book addresses this claim, showing that class remained important to 'ordinary' people's narratives about social change and their own identities throughout the period 1968-2000, but in changing ways.
Abstract:
Cover -- Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Images -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deferencein England, 1968-2000 -- 1: Tyneside Shipbuilders: Workers' Attitudes to Class, 1968-1971 -- POPULAR CLASS IDENTITIES ON TYNESIDE -- THE MEANINGS OF CLASS -- CLASS AND POLITICS IN THE 'TRADITIONAL WORKING CLASS' -- CONCLUSION -- 2: Middle-Class Voices, c.1969-1979 -- MIDDLE-CLASS EDWARDIANS -- VOICES FROM MIDDLE-CLASS LONDON -- JOHNNY BLACK -- CONCLUSION -- 3: Working-Class Autobiography, c.1970-1985 -- THE EROSION OF CLASS -- COMMUNITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL -- IMAGINED COMMUNITIES -- CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS AND POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- 4: Attitudes to Class in the '100 Families' Study, 1985-1988 -- CLASS IDENTITIES -- AMBIVALENCE AND ORDINARINESS IN DISCUSSIONS OF CLASS -- THE BLURRING OF CLASS LINES -- DEFERENCE AND SNOBBISHNESS -- GENERATIONAL SHIFTS IN ATTITUDES TO CLASS -- CONCLUSION -- 5: Mass Observers' Attitudes to Class, 1990 -- MASS OBSERVERS' UNDERSTANDINGS OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- CLASS, HOUSING, GENDER, AND RACE -- CULTURE AND CLASS DISTINCTION -- CLASS IDENTITIES IN 1990 -- CONCLUSION -- 6: Class in the Millennium Memory Bank, 1998-2000 -- 'CLASSLESSNESS' IN THE MILLENNIUM MEMORY BANK -- CLASS AND POPULAR IDENTITIES AT THE MILLENNIUM -- EDUCATION, SOCIAL MOBILITY,AND CLASS IDENTITIES -- CONCLUSION -- 7: Class in Thatcherite Ideology and Rhetoric -- THATCHER, CLASS, AND SOCIETY -- THATCHER, THE WORKING CLASS, AND EMBOURGEOISEMENT -- THATCHERITE INDIVIDUALISM -- THATCHER'S NEW IMAGINED CONSTITUENCY -- THATCHERITE POLICY -- POSTSCRIPT: JOHN MAJOR AND 'CLASSLESSNESS' -- CONCLUSION -- 8: New Labour, Class, and Social Change -- MODERNIZATION AND NARRATIVESOF SOCIAL CHANGE.
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