#working-class — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #working-class, aggregated by home.social.
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To celebrate her centenary, Birlinn is publishing new editions of Agnes Owens’ books with introductions from contemporary Scottish writers. Four are released this month: A Working Mother; For the Love of Willie; Like Birds in the Wilderness; & Gentlemen of the West
https://birlinn.co.uk/contributor/agnes-owens/
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass
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The Agnes Owens Archive – Centenary Talk
24 May, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow – freeOn the 100th birthday of Scottish writer Agnes Owens, Kelvingrove are hosting SGSAH-funded PhD researcher, Laura MacDonald, who has been supporting the development of the new Agnes Owens Archive, housed at the Alasdair Gray Archive
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-agnes-owens-archive-centenary-talk
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass
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3.8%. $4.06 at the pump. The war-economy arrived in your wallet before the headline confirmed it. Screenshot your gas receipt every week until November. The body knew first — tightness behind the sternum, then the news alert. Vote with the memory.
#inflation #gasprices #economy #IranWar #CPI #costofliving #economicjustice #workingclass #inflation2026 #news
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2/4 These are fields - media and cultural studies and cultural theory - that are increasingly being framed as problematic, both ideologically and instrumentally. Yet they have played an important role in challenging the elitist tendencies of the mainstream, including those surrounding #socialmobility. If only either Seddon or Rajan had attended one of these institutions instead of having the disadvantage of studying for an undergraduate degree at #Oxford and #cambridge.
Still, we shouldn’t be surprised. This is, after all, a conversation on the #BBC between two Oxbridge-educated figures – albeit one is from South London the other West Yorkshire – taking about how social mobility might be used to include more people from #workingclass backgrounds in the system as it currently exists. It’s a social and educational system that was constructed in advance, although not by working-class people themselves, of course. A system that has in fact historically exploited and marginalised them.
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“Just like an employee cannot go see his employer and say ‘starting today, I’m working from home,’ the employer cannot do the same thing to the employee,” he said.
"He also alleged uneven enforcement, as entire teams were found to be skirting attendance rules, but only some workers were dismissed."
#canpoli #labour #workingclass
