But the shift has more to do with how parties behave than any changes in the class system.
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The film zeros in on the generation of children whose formative years are unfolding in front of screens.
Dads today are spending dramatically more time with their kids than they did a generation ago. But there’s a less encouraging trend tucked into this development.
Glamour isn’t just for the rich and famous. As the ‘Ball Without Billionaires’ showed, the blue collar can bedazzle.
Class has always mattered, and now labour parties around the world are finding out why.
‘Banter’ about where you’re from or how you speak is harder to define than racism or sexism, but it is damaging.
The Dink lifestyle is attractive: more money and time for yourselves. But on the salary of an average UK household, you won’t be able to buy an average house.
China’s economic growth didn’t benefit Hu Anyan – but his exceptional literary talent did. His book about struggling to survive as a gig worker is a worldwide hit.
People are often uncomfortable recognising how their backgrounds have helped them in their own lives.
In Homework, renowned writer Geoff Dyer meditates on the whole, small world of childhood – and how class influences who we become.
In countries where income inequality is high, those who feel privileged are often more supportive of redistribution.
Bookshelves as decor were trends in the 19th and 20th-centuries, too. So were book-of-the-month clubs and popular media on books. They helped make reading popular.
The Republican tax bill is set to worsen inequality, government data shows. It’s part of a 50-year trend that’s affecting the social fabric as well as the economy.
The process of deindustrialisation affects not just the type of work that was done, but how men in the region see themselves.
The narrowness of this field is bad news for diversity – we need greater breadth and depth when it comes to British culture and those who produce it.
Only 9% of journalists working for national and transnational media come from a working class background.
Henry James’ ‘The Princess Casamassima’ tells a story of political radicalism in a time of economic inequality. But even James ran up against the limits of putting himself in the mind of a killer.
Using examples from film and literature, Louks’s study explored how smell is used to discriminate against certain groups
What does it mean if young men sense that their masculinity is under threat? Or if they sense a bleak and hopeless future?
Unlike America’s ‘trailer trash; stereotype, the distinctly British term 'chav’ specifically targets perceived vulgarity, lack of sophistication and failures of proper femininity.
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