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Class, politics, and the decline of deference in England, 1968-2000 /

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 iden...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Past & present book series.
Subjects:
Social classes > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Working class > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Classes sociales > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Social classes
Social conditions
Working class
Great Britain
1900-1999
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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; 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.1969â#x80;#x93;1979; MIDDLE-CLASS EDWARDIANS; VOICES FROM MIDDLE-CLASS LONDON; JOHNNY BLACK; CONCLUSION
  • 3: Working-Class Autobiography, c.1970- 1985THE 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 1990CONCLUSION; 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 CHANGETHE NEW WORKING CLASS AND ORDINARY WORKING FAMILIES; MODERNIZATION, INDIVIDUALISM, AND COMMUNITY; NEW LABOUR POLICY; CONCLUSION; Conclusion: Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference,1968- 2017; CHANGING CLASS IDENTITIES, 1968- 2000; CLASS AND POLITICS, 1968- 2000; EPILOGUE: CLASS, POLITICS, AND THE DECLINE OF DEFERENCE, 2000- 2017; Appendix; Bibliography; MANUSCRIPT SOURCES; DIGITAL PRIMARY SOURCES; PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; UNPUBLISHED PHD THESES; INTERVIEWS; PAPERS AND TALKS; Index; Names; General