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‘Emotional authoritarianism’: state, education and the mobile working-class subjects

, 2020
Examining emotions within the studies of mobilities, recent literature has highlighted that migration is an inherently uncertain process shaped by hopes and dreams, as well as feelings of fear and anxiety.
N. Pun, J. Qiu
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Resisting Despair: Narratives of Disruption and Transformation Among White Working-Class Women in a Declining Coal-Mining Community

, 2020
In this article, we examine how white working-class women reimagine gender in the face of social and economic changes that have undermined their ability to perform normative femininity.
Kait Smeraldo Schell, Jennifer M. Silva
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Reproducing the Working Class? Incongruence between the Valuation of Social-Emotional Skills in School and in the Labor Market

, 2020
The power of social-emotional skills to improve student achievement has been hailed in recent literature. Yet foundational work in sociology of education indicates that these skills may benefit the status attainment of middle-class students more than ...
Siqi Han
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Why are middle-class parents more involved in school than working-class parents?

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2019
This article studies why middle-class parents are more involved in school than working-class parents. From theoretical approaches developed in different disciplines hypotheses on the mediating effects of five mechanisms are derived: cultural capital or ...
K. Barg
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Investigating the role of identity versatility in the discursive production of working-class boyhood, learner identities and educational engagement

Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies
Internationally, boys from working-class backgrounds are often the most likely to disengage from their formal education. Research on the educational experience of working-class boys has focused heavily on their identity barriers, often positioning these ...
Garth D. Stahl, Stig-börje Asplund, Laura Scholes   +2 more
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A History of American Working-Class Literature

2017
A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the ...
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Tracing the making of Australian working class literature

2014
‘Working class literature’ signifies a body and tradition of literary works that are inspirational in their expression of the demand for a genuine human liberation. The term also refers to an ongoing and developing field of critical practices that engage with these writings in ways that articulate, elucidate and promote this demand.
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WORKING CLASS LITERATURE IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND

History Workshop Journal, 1986
Andy Croft, Kay Obaidi-Fard, Paul Salveson, Ken Worple   +3 more
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The Industrial Muse. A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Literature.

, 1976
A. Briggs, Martha Vicinus
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The Industrial Muse: A Study of Nineteenth-Century British Working-Class Literature

, 1976
F. M. Leventhal, M. Vicinus
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