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Books and Films Reflecting British Realism

an exaggerated representation of the fiction from which they are culled. The realist movement of the 1960s was centered on "the ...

Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Michael Zweig's Working Class Majority

and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" Ehrenreich takes on a new identity to secure work in the blue collar workforce fulfilli...

Nineteenth Century Great Britain, Middle Class and Working Women

self worth and capabilities that remained in the forefront of their adult lives. For nineteenth century British working cla...

Socioeconomic Status of Women in A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

In six pages this paper discusses how Woolf's education and high social status influenced her views regarding working class women ...

The Fluidity of Identity and Consumerism

is a stable concept; shares with a social group and influenced mainly by two variables; nationality and class, but more recent the...

Progressive Age Work of Reformers

In six pages this paper discusses the positive contributions of the Progressive period reformers to America's working class. Seve...

Workers of Nineteenth Century France

In five pages this essay examines France during the 19th century in a consideration of the working class. There are no other sour...

Essays on Absolute Monarchy, the French Revolution, and the Effects of Mechanization on the Working Class

- such as whenever he needed funding for one of the many wars he was fighting. This constant in-fighting between the English mona...

Norma Rae’s Depiction of Labor

sit down, even when "they are having menstrual cramps" (Giroux). In the film, workers also complain about "plant conditions, speed...

Working Class Transition and Changes

opportunities via education, housing, health and welfare policies. Class law began the process of change during the Victorian peri...

The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson

hand through their own talents, then suddenly factories and mechanized tools were in place, taking the place of those who crafted ...

1990 to 1995 Conditions of America's Working Class

verses the tenth percentile had increased to over four times as much. The discrepancy for women increased as well, from 3.1 in 19...

Managing Time

In four pages this paper discusses how students can balance work and class demands through time management. Three sources are cit...

Themes of Class and Snobbery in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell and Jane Austen

In six pages this paper discusses themes of class and snobbery as they are represented by Thornton in Elizabeth Gaskell's North an...

Working Class Representation in the Film Saturday Night Fever

In five pages this essay presents a sociological analysis of the film Saturday Night Fever. There is no bibliography included....

Multicultural Literature and Class Struggle

In five pages class struggle is considered as presented in multicultural works Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Inem, Mahasweta Devi's Bre...

Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair

In five pages the writer argues on behalf of this work becoming a part of any English class curriculum for sophomores. There are ...

Class Struggle, Science, Freedom, and Karl Marx

In six pages this research paper examines Karl Marx's theories in a consideration of such concepts as the working class struggle, ...

Families on the Fault Line by Lillian B. Rubin

In five pages this sociological text is summarized and analyzed in a consideration of the working class 'invisible' American citiz...

Learning to Labor by Paul Willis

In five pages this paper considers Paul Willis' studies of Great Britain's working class laborers as they existed in the 1970s. T...

Richard Wright's Black Boy and William Faulkner's Light in August and Black Identity

white society or in any way "rock the boat". As Jennifer Poulos observes, they are, in particular, taught to be quiet, and to refr...

Nazi Era and German Working Class Socioeconomic Conditions

of Jewish property: I can still feel today the way I thought back then. I wondered: "what will happen to us some day because of a...

English Countryside in 'Odour Of Chrysanthemums' by D.H. Lawrence

The fact that Lawrence was completely able to represent this concept within the main characters in such a fashion as to give the r...

A Review of Two Books on Poverty by Newman and Gans

And, about half of the working poor have no health benefits at all, they earn too much for Medicaid and they cannot possibly buy h...

The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels

In four pages this paper examines Engel's communist views expressed in this 1844 pamphlet and considers the hypocrisy of the autho...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Working Class

In 5 pages this paper discusses the contrasts between the affluent and the working class drawn by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel...

Life of an English Commoner from 1800 to 1850

In ten pages an English commoner's life as it was lived during the first half of the 19th century is considered with original test...

Social Prejudice in Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Castles Of Athlin And Dunbayne by Anne Radcliffe

general public. "In a gallery on the North side of the castle, which was filled with pictures of the family, hung a portrait of M...

New Immigration in an Ethnic and Immigrant Working Class Historiographical Context

be a serious threat to the overall social fabric. For nearly as long as man has existed, social intolerance has been driving a we...

Age of Revolution by Eric Hobsbawm

In five pages this paper considers the text on the Industrial and French Revolutions in an examination of economic and working cla...