Part 1 'Spreading the word - readerships, audiences, listeners: Ruskin and the working-classes in mid-Victorian Britain, Lawrence Goldman; 'John Ruskin and the idea of a museum', Marcus Waithe; 'Of Ruskin, women and power', Rachel Dickinson; 'Influence, presence, appropriation -…
Examining the wide-ranging and abiding implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers into the present, this collection is organized around three related themes. This book studies the dissemination of Ruskin's intellectual legacy to working men and wom…
Examining the wide-ranging and abiding implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers into the present, this collection is organized around three related themes. This book studies the dissemination of Ruskin's intellectual legacy to working men and wom…
Questioning the assumption that education is the 'great social equalizer', this book takes a comparative approach to the social origin - education - destination triangle by examining advantage in 14 different countries, including case studies from Europe, Israel, the USA, Russia…
In this ground-breaking investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth'. It is a disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain.
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule.In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from "salt of the earth" to "scum of the earth." Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caric…
'We're Still Here' provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics. Drawing on years of fieldwork and over 100 interviews with Black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Jennifer M. …
The economy has been brutal to American workers for decades. The chance to give one's children a better life - the promise at the heart of the American Dream - is withering away. And yet, the groups who stand to gain the most from mobilizing politically appear the least motivate…
