The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) by Wheeler, Mark

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Working-class filmmaking: an interview with Brett Gregory by Baldwin, Jon

“…This is an interview with Brett Gregory on working-class filmmaking and exploration of the autobiographical inspirations and motivations behind the production of the British working-class feature film, Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist.…”
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British feature films and working-class culture, 1945-1950 by Gillett, Philip

“…An interdisciplinary approach is used to test the hypothesis that in the years following the Second World War, British films could offer working-class audiences reinforcement for their values and attitudes. …”
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Working-class Hollywood: silent film and the shaping of class in America (Review) by Murray, Martin

“…Review Article of: Steven J. Ross, Working-class Hollywood: silent film and the shaping of class in America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998)…”
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Alliances, assemblages, and affects : three moments of building collective working-class literacies by Harding, Jennifer, Pauszek, Jessica, Parks, Steve, Pollard, Nicholas

“…This article explores how assemblage and affect theories can enable research into the formation of a collective working-class identity, inclusive of written, print, publication, and organizational literacies through the origins of the Federation of Worker Writer and Community Publishers, an organization that expanded its collectivity as new heritages, ethnicities, and immigrant identities altered the organization’s membership and "class" identity.…”
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How do counselling psychologists talk about doing therapy with working class clients in an IAPT setting?: a Foucauldian discourse analysis by Gallo, Delia

“…Within IAPT settings a proportion of clients seen are from working class backgrounds, some of whom may be living in poverty. …”
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Reluctant patients: health, sickness and the embodiment of plebeian masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain: evidence from working men's autobiographies by Hogarth, Stuart James

“…The relationship between the poor and the medical establishment forms an underlying theme of an examination of working-class attitudes to public health, and the clinical encounter. …”
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Personalities and labour activism in Nigeria: the contributions of Michael Imuodu and Adams Oshiomhole by Osiki, Omon Merry

“…It argues that both Imoudu and Oshiomhole were very important in creating the necessary impetus among the working class in their struggle against oppressive and exploitativesocio-economic and political conditions in the Nigerian state.…”
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A changing world: new opportunities, new dangers (editorial) by Durrani, Shiraz

“…This is an editorial to a special issue of 'Information society and justice journal' which is titled Trade union and working class struggles.…”
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Social mixing in urban schools: class, race and exchange-value friendships by Hollingworth, Sumi

“…Through analysis of three working-class, minority ethnic students who attempt to ‘cross borders’ into White middle-class subcultures, I explore the differing capital value embodied in their raced, classed and gendered identity positions. …”
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Class and UK film and television: representation, neo-liberalism, inequality by Baldwin, Jon

“…Three areas are considered to be problematic for the working classes: representation, neo-liberalism and industry inequality. …”
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Trade unionism and governance in Nigeria: a paradigm shift from labour activism to political opposition by Nwoko, Kenneth Chukwuemeka

“…The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has, since Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999, been the platform for the Nigerian people to query government policies, actions and inaction, not only for the Nigerian working class, but the entire Nigerian peoples. Such policies include: privatization and commercialization of public institutions and services, incessant fuel hikes, retrenchments of workers and implementation of prescribed conditions and unfavourable policies of international monopoly finance capitalist institutions, etc. …”
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Book Review : Graham Cassano, A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935-1948 (Boston: Brill, 2014, $28.00). Pp. 215. ISBN 978 9 00... by Wheeler, Mark

“…He argues that this reconfigured United States “public” had emerged from the governmental intervention of the New Deal, the inequities of the Great Depression and the radicalization of working-class consciousnesses. Most especially, the proletarian values of such a politically aware audience had been advanced by the anti-Fascist Popular Front movement and by the tectonic labour struggles that occurred between the US workforce and the reactionary capitalist elite. …”
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Children's constructions of work by Hutchings, Merryn

“…Constructions of work and resources drawn on were investigated through interviews with forty-three children in two London primary schools, one in a predominantly middle class area and one in a working class area. Children interviewed were in Reception Class (4-5 years old), Year Three (7-8 years old) and Year Six (10-11 years old); numbers of boys and girls were almost equal. …”
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“A claim to be heard”: voices of ordinary people in BBC radio features by Lewis, Peter M.

“…Pioneering initiatives used the cumbersome recording apparatus of the time to reach into people’s homes and work-places to capture working class voices. After WW2 this example was followed in other regions, until, belatedly in the late 1950s, the BBC began to accept the use of portable recording. …”
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Ladies of the lodge : a history of Scottish Orangewomen, c. 1909-2013 by Butcher, Deborah

“…Challenging prevalent assumptions that Orangewomen are overwhelmingly working-class, it demonstrates a small - yet significant - core of female luminaries to be occupationally middle-class. …”
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State of the nation: class, Labour politics and the contemporary relevance of Our Friends in the North (1996) by Collins, Jeremy

“…The series followed four working-class friends from Tyneside, and explored how their lives unfolded during the social and political upheavals of the 1960s through to the 1990s. …”
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Black Workers and BME networks organising against racism in the NHS workplace by Carter, Nigel Geoffrey

“…The research makes a theoretical contribution by applying the concept of ‘common sense neoliberalism’ alongside the concept of ‘racial capitalism’ to consider the implications of forms of race equality which, in aligning with neoliberal corporate diversity management agendas, operate to privilege Black professional middle class identities whilst marginalising Black working class perspectives.…”
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Writing Irish nurses in Britain by Murray, Tony

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Climate change, trade unions and the promise of climate solidarity in the UK, 1997-2010 by Hampton, Paul Stephen

“…The main findings are that some socialists, trade unionists and activists in the UK have introduced a working class perspective into climate discourse, including challenges to property relations, climate inequality and through mobilisation. …”
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