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Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
1138312177, 9781138312173
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5378852 bytes)
Series
Cities and Society
Pages
166\0
Time added
2022-07-12 13:09:20

Description

Based on qualitative research among industrial workers in a region that has undergone deindustrialisation and transformation to a service-based economy, this book examines the loss of status among former manual labourers. Focus lies on their emotional experiences, nostalgic memories, hauntings from the past and attachments to their former places of work, to transformed neighbourhoods, as well as to public space. Against this background the book explores the continued importance of class as workers attempt to manage the declining recognition of their skills and a loss of power in an "established-outsider figuration". A study of the transformation of everyday life and social positions wrought by changes in the social structure, in urban landscapes and in the "structures of feeling", this examination of the dynamic of social identity will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and geography with interests in post-industrial societies, social inequality, class and social identity.

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