Working class

1801-1910 Industrialization was at its peak. Although, middle-class and working-class members were not the same in the long run a few middle-class had similar ideas to the working class in regards to the harsh conditions. When comparing the middle and working class and their opinions on the work of nineteenth-century Europe it is clear to see that few middle-class members had similar opinions to those of the working class, and those few middle-class members saw the harsh conditions on the…

Bell is going more in depth culture about the culture of being poor and the perception of society of the working class and lower-class. She also focused on her own personal story and struggles through her childhood and her academic career, by detailing the struggles that she face and how she overcame become successful financially secure individual. Her primary focus was on the education was not a key indicator of one’s intelligence that you could have use of collegiate education and still be…

As the gap between United States richest elites and the working class grows, focus on this topic is lost with government tackling other issues. The financial gap is the least of concerns for politicians, since many are part of the rich elite, or are influenced by capitalists. Politicians seek and are given power to do so by manipulating voters. Many candidates seeking for political office are secretly endorsed by shadow entities, not publicized to the American public. Capitalist influence…

The working class, defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary as, “of, relating to, deriving from, or suitable to the class of wage earners,” is comprised of Americans in the lower and lower-middle classes. Americans in the lower class make up about twenty-nine percent of the nation, while the middle class consists of about fifty-one percent. The distinction between the working class and middle class can be complex. Some middle class workers are part of the working class, but not everyone in the…

In 2015 I directed, with Flinders University Drama Centre, Who’s Afraid of the Working Class. This production was part of my assessment at Flinders University for my Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) – Directing Degree. Originally when planning on critically reflecting on this production I had planned to omit the requirements and restrictions that the university placed upon the process however on further reflection those requirements and restrictions are comparable to those placed upon a…

divided by class whereas the US continues to be a classless society” is only partially true; both Great Britain (GB) and the United States of America (USA) are divided by social classes. However, at one point in time, roughly about the late 1900’s, the quote was highly debatable. The United States of America and other countries thought that there was little class differentiation in the USA and the social class system consisted mostly of the middle class. Michael Zweig’s “The Working Class…

that the depiction of the working class changes from the sympathetic to the threatening during the Victorian period? The differences between plebeians and bourgeois during the Victorian period progressed from condole the working class to threatened by them. Regardless of the sentimental portrayal to a sympathetic representation of the working class, that Charles Dickens has presented in his novels, the Victorians shared an anxiety of revolution in the middle and upper class affecting the…

The working class was the majority of the population and unquestioningly underrepresented in the British government during the Hanoverian era and, unfortunately, many eras before and after. Historians and scholars across multiple fields have studied the laws, workforce struggles, and the general social welfare of the lives of the lower class, but the narratives lack the big picture. A case study here may focus on men, another on women, and yet another on the black community, a specific field of…

Christine Stansell describes and outlines the lives and culture of urban working-class women in New York City from the end of the Revolutionary War to the start of the Civil War. This period represents (at least the urban area of New York) the shift from the small city economics to the beginnings of the urban industrialization. However, these were the nameless individuals (reminiscent of the Many Headed Hydra in its use of the New Left rhetoric) who basically became entirely, a female “motley…

cases cause the proletariat (the class of wage earners, especially those who earn their living by manual labor or who are dependent for support on daily or casual employment; the working class) (dictionary.com, n.d) to rise against the upper classes of their societies and create societies which had never before seen. Engel’s methods of spreading…