Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class

ISBN-13: 9781138312173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 166 str.

Lars Meier

Opis

This book adopts a new perspective on the transformation of social inequality by analysing how it is experienced by individuals in a region that has undergone deindustrialisation, and explores the continued importance of class identity as workers attempt to manage the declining public recognition of their skills.

Recenzje

‘Meier has made important theoretical and methodological contributions to an emerging concern with the affectivities of class and deindustrialisation, a project that will be further advanced by attending to the affective political processes of class. Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-)Industrial Landscapes will be foundational to both researchers and undergraduate programmes engaging with this project.’ - Jay Emery, Critical Sociology

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: Context: Spatial and Social Transformations  2. Field Methods and the Local Context  3. Transformations of Class  Part 2: Senses of Place and Transformed Industrial Landscapes  4. "Quite a Shame": Confrontations Between Workers Nostalgia and Optimistic Official Representations  5. Class-related Senses of Place and Frightening Encounters with Haunted Workplaces  6. Nostalgia and Practices of Resistance in Public Spaces  Part 3: Community Transformations and Social Encounters  7. Community Transformations I: The Nostalgic View of the Former Established  8. Community Transformations II: The Non-nostalgic View of a Former Outsider  9. Conclusion

O autorze

Lars Meier is Professor for Sociology and Social Inequality at the Institute for Sociology, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany.