working class
‘From the Plough to the Stars: Working People’s Prose from Contemporary Ireland’
March 9, 2021The collection reads almost like a tour guide, as the writers lead us through old working-class districts of Dublin and some of the new estates established to rid the cities of their slums.
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TV’s forgotten: Indigenous and working-class series
December 21, 2020Few series on television focus either on the Earth’s first inhabitants, the Indigenous, now mostly quartered in slums across the world, or on workers, their lives, and daily concerns. We’ll be discussing the series Mystery Road,...
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Race for the center? The Democratic Party can’t forget the working class…again
November 16, 2020There’s a folk saying in the American South that “being in the middle of the road either makes you a yellow line or roadkill.”
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Is Black Lives Matter a tipping point on class inequality?
August 4, 2020On what basis do we assign different values to people’s lives?
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‘Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists’: British author exposes Great Money Trick of capitalism
April 22, 2020Working-class readers have widely embraced the novel as an important text about their experience, written from their own point of view.
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