Lars Meier

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

Feelings of Class

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780367775025
• ISBN-10: 0367775026
• Artikelnr.: 69891716

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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