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The new knowledge aristocracy: the creative class, mobility and urban growth [PDF]
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2007 Many policy-makers, particularly in North America, have been seduced and influenced by the ideas of Richard Florida, who suggests that cities and regions can be economically revitalised if they make themselves attractive to the mobile and talented ...
Richard Shearmur
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Reframing the Indian Middle Class as a Labour Aristocracy
Journal of Labor and Society, 2023 Taking from, and critiquing, both the scholarship on the Indian middle class as well as the scholarship on the ‘labour aristocracy’, this paper argues for the reformulation of the Indian “middle class” as a labour aristocracy or worker elite. We define the distinctive characteristics that set the Indian worker elite apart from the broader working class
Aryaman Sharma
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Styles of Life, the “Labour Aristocracy” and Class Relations in Later Nineteenth Century Edinburgh [PDF]
International Review of Social History, 1973 The idea of a “labour aristocracy” pervades writing about the British working class of the second half, and especially the third quarter of the nineteenth century. This emphasis is, in my view, correct: the behaviour and consciousness of working people cannot be explained without some such concept of divisions within the working class.
Robert Gray
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This paper seeks to understand how a new elite, known as the cork aristocracy, emerged in the Bordeaux wine field, France, between 1850 and 1929 as wine merchants replaced aristocrats. Classic class and status perspectives, and their distinctive social closure dynamics, are mobilized to illuminate the individual and organizational transformations that ...
Croidieu, Gregoire +4 more
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Costruire una nuova aristocrazia: gli antiqui mores al servizio della politica augustea
Lexis, 2021 In his reorganization of the State, Augustus restored the patrimony of values on which the senatorial aristocracy had founded its power in the res publica and he especially ensured the family’s central role.
Rohr Vio, Francesca
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Кавказология, 2021 The article examines the traditional institutions of military culture of the Circassians – military departure and departure for service. Departure for service was part of the universal system of replenishment of the ruling class of the feudal powers of ...
A. S. MIRZOEV
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Enlightenment, Modernization, Professional Training
Historical Studies on Central Europe, 2022 Western historical narratives of the Enlightenment tend to depict the eighteenth-century aristocracy as a unique promoter of overall progress, whereas Hungarian historiography is more inclined to appraise their role according to a deprecating approach ...
György Kurucz
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Social Status of Roman Senators According to the Theodosian Code: Legislation and Reality
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2022 In 438, at the initiative of Emperor Theodosius II, one of the most significant legislative collections of the late Roman Empire, the Codex Theodosianus (Eng.
Evgeniya Sergeevna Zaitseva
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Forum, 2010 Britain’s self-made man was defined by taste, money, influence, and most importantly, middle-class rank in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution.
Jayme Yahr
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