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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£20.00 hardback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781526173096 | ISBN 10: 1526173093
In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a 'working-class hero'. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him, he offered a robust critique of the government and provided workers with an authentic v ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838850012 | ISBN 10: 1838850015
This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens. Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardr ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780745341026 | ISBN 10: 0745341020
Who cares about working-class queers in Britain today? Are queers marginal to the study of class, and are the working-classes marginal to queer studies? Yvette Taylor critically engages with the experience of working-class queers through cycles of cr ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913406639 | ISBN 10: 1913406636
"Powerful, vital and visionary"(Jimmy McGovern) Something unusual happened in Britain during the spring of 2020. As the nation went into lockdown to fight a killer pandemic our view of what constituted a hero changed. Suddenly celebrity busine ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529103380 | ISBN 10: 152910338x
“Everyone has their price. It’s just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.” Single mum. ‘Stain on society’. Caught in a poverty trap. It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survi ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783351572 | ISBN 10: 1783351578
When Mike Carter's father died, he decided to follow the route of a march against unemployment his dad had organised 35 years before. Mike had a troubled relationship with his dad, and hoped the walk, undertaken a month before the Brexit vote, would ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783527458 | ISBN 10: 1783527455
Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the dep ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784783778 | ISBN 10: 1784783773
A compelling investigation into the myth and reality of working-class life in contemporary Britain. In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goo ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408831632 | ISBN 10: 1408831635
The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson's great-grandmother Winnie's ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and an ... more
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