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Affluence, Class and Crown Street: Reinvestigating the Post-War Working Class.
- Source :
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Contemporary British History . Dec2008, Vol. 22 Issue 4, p501-518. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- This paper revisits sociological studies of Liverpool between 1956 and 1964 to challenge the prevailing emphasis on affluence in histories of post-war Britain. Vulnerability to poverty continued to shape working-class life, and the sociologists and their respondents drew on class to account for this. However, while the researchers used class as a social description, their respondents suggested that class was a dynamic social relationship within which they operated a degree of agency, albeit mediated by gender and locale. Their agency was not only facilitated by the development of a post-war welfare state, rather than by personal affluence, but also relied on older household economic strategies that highlight continuities with the pre-war period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13619462
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary British History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 35484348
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13619460802439382