working class
‘Shuggie Bain’, tale of Scottish working-class life under Thatcherism, wins Booker Prize
July 30, 2021Alcoholism and its effect on people and communities is explored from the perspective of a loving and protective child, who observes all the secrecies, shame, and suicidal self-hate it brings.
Read more‘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.
Read moreTV’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,...
Read moreRace 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.”
Read moreIs 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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