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Precarity and Class Consciousness in Contemporary Swedish Working-Class Literature

open access: yesHumanities, 2023
This article analyses aesthetical–political strategies for the promotion of class consciousness among workers in a few examples of contemporary Swedish working-class literature from different genres that describe and criticize precarious working ...
Magnus Nilsson
exaly   +2 more sources

Working-Class Literature(s) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
"The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and theoretically elaborate understanding of working-class literature(s). These essays map a substantial terrain: the history of working-class literature(s)
Lennon, John, Nilsson, Magnus,
core   +7 more sources

Working-Class Literature(s) Volume II [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The aim of this collection is to contribute to the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and theoretically elaborate understanding of working-class literature(s).

core   +5 more sources

On the literariness of working-class literature

open access: yes, 2022
This article argues that even if working-class literature has often been marginalized within literary studies, scholars interested in it – including scholars within the field of working-class studies – should not alienate themselves from that discipline.
Nilsson, Magnus,
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What does it mean to be working class? Exploring the definition of a social class identity through the eyes of working-class professional services and administrative staff in Russell Group universities

open access: yes, 2023
What it means to have a working-class identity in the UK today is constantly under tension and debate. From socio-economic proxies used by large organisations as determinants of disadvantage to POLAR data, self identification and other metrics, academic ...
Pilgrim-Brown, Jess
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Problems and possibilities for Swedish working-class literature in a neoliberal age

open access: yes, 2023
In recent decades, inequality has increased in Sweden. The increasing gaps are connected with policies that are often called neoliberal. How does working-class literature relate to these social problems and what literary possibilities does it open up? In
Gustafson, Magnus   +2 more
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Missing Men? Precarity and Declining Labor Force Participation Among Working-Class Men

open access: yes, 2022
Recent research has noted declining labor force participation among working class men in the United States, but with little attention to the mechanisms underlying such withdrawal.
Francis, Robert
core   +1 more source

Introduction: Evolving Perspectives on Working-Class Literature

open access: yes, 2020
The aim of this collection is to contribute to the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and theoretically elaborate understanding of working-class literature(s).
John Lennon   +5 more
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Class, Taste, and Literature : The Case of Ivar Lo-Johansson and Swedish Working- Class Literature

open access: yes, 2019
This article discusses the tradition of Swedish working-class literature and the relationship between taste and class. First, I analyze the representation of this relationship in Swedish working-class writer Ivar Lo-Johansson’s novel Kungsgatan [King ...
Nilsson, Magnus, Nilsson, Magnus,
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The newspaper press and the Victorian working-class poet [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The relationship between the aspiring working-class poet and the newspaper press has always been crucial. Indeed, it is possible to argue that at least from the late eighteenth century onwards, every laboring-class or working-class poet had a significant
Blair, Kirstie, Kirstie Blair
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