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RESOURCES

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These are some examples of resources we can also share from our own personal archives of resources, from friends, educational courses or from other sources:
Text/Audio/Visuals from Lectures, Talks, Events, Film/Art Festivals
Resources from Modules of Study, Academic Texts, Film Lists, Artwork, Workplace Resources (legal to publicly share), Experience in industry, Online Books/Magazines/Zines/Thesis’/Academic texts.
Scans of Book sections, Magazines/Zines, Diagrams / Mind maps, Art / Film / Design Exhibition Leaflets.
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BOOKDespised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery. Published by Polity, 2020
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BOOKCHAVS: A demonisation of the working class - Owen Jones
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BOOKSkint Estate by Cash Carraway. Published by Penguin Random House, 2019
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BOOKPeople Like Us by Hashi Mohamed. Published by Profile Books Ltd, 2020
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BOOKPoverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass by Darren McGarvey. Luath Press Ltd. 2017
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BOOKPoverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass by Darren McGarvey. Luath Press Ltd. 2017
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BOOKCulture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries. Published by Manchester University Press, 2020
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BOOKThe Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cross. 1972
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BOOK9.5 Theses on Art and Class by Ben Davis. Haymarket Books 2013.
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BOOKMiseducation by Diane Reay. Policy Press 2017
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BOOKLowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson. Published by Chatto & Windus, 2019
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BOOKNatives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire, Akala, 2018
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BOOKWomen, Race & Class, Angela Davis, 1981https://legalform.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/davis-women-race-class.pdf
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BOOKAre Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis, 2003https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf
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BOOKCapitalist Realism, Mark Fisher, 2009
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BOOKAcid Communism, Mark Fisher and Matt Colquhoun, 2018
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BOOKThe Great Transformation, Kalr Polanyi, 1944
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BOOKSocial Anarchist Aesthetics in an age of Fragmentation, Artpolitik, 2013https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/artpolitik-web.pdf
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BOOKI, Rigoberta Menchu, 1983https://www.versobooks.com/books/445-i-rigoberta-menchu
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BOOKHidden injuries of class, Richard Senett, 1993https://www.wwnorton.co.uk/books/9780393310856-the-hidden-injuries-of-class
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BOOKSo We Live, Alexander Baron https://fiveleaves.co.uk/product/so-we-live-the-novels-of-alexander-baron/#:~:text=Book%20details,writers%20of%20post%2Dwar%20Britain
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BOOKChav Solidarity, D. Hunter, 2021https://housmans.com/product/chav-solidarity/
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BOOKGizza Poem, Working Class poetry from the 1980s Gizza Poem
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BOOKWays of Learning, Florence Agbah, 1986https://www.fwwcp-dc.org/sites/default/files/2017-01/Agbah,%20Florence.%20Ways%20of%20Learning.pdf
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BOOKBread for all, Chris Renwick, 2018Bread for All
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BOOKLandscape for a Good Woman, Carolyn Steedman, 1986Landscape For A Good Woman by Carolyn Steedman | Hachette UK
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BOOKGoing where the work is, Isaac Gordon, 1979https://www.fwwcp-dc.org/sites/default/files/2017-01/Gordon,%20Isaac.%20Going%20Where%20the%20Work%20Is_0.pdf
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BOOKMe, me me? The search for community in post-war Britain, Jon Lawrence, 2019Me, Me, Me? : Jon Lawrence : 9780198779537 : Blackwell's
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BOOKThe Making of the Black Working Class, Ron Ramdin, 1987The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain | Verso Books
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BOOKFeminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power, Lola Olufemi, 2020
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BOOKRespectable: Crossing the class divide, Lynsey Hanley, 2017https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/132/132931/respectable/9780141040615.html
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BOOKCapital vol. 1, Karl Marx, 1867
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BOOKHistory and Class Consciousness, György Lukács, 1923
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BOOKThe Making of the English Working Class, E P Thompson, 1963
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BOOKDistinction, Pierre Bourdieu, 1979
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BOOKGetting By, Lisa McKenzie, 2015
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BOOKTerraformed, Joy White, 2020
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BOOKEstates: An Intimate History, 2007
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ARTICLEClass, participation and job quality in the UK Creative Industries, 2020https://www.pec.ac.uk/assets/publications/PEC-report-class-in-the-creative-industries-FINAL.pdf
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ARTICLEKnow Your Place, Dan Fox, 2016https://www.frieze.com/article/know-your-place
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ARTICLEI Never Worried About Being Working Class Until I Went to Art School, Beth Ashley, 2021I Never Worried About Being Working Class Until I Went to Art School
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ARTICLE‘Working-class children get less of everything in education - including respect’ Donna Ferguson, 2017https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/nov/21/english-class-system-shaped-in-schools
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ARTICLE‘Like Skydiving without a Parachute’: How Class Origin Shapes Occupational Trajectories in British Acting, 2016https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038038516629917
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ARTICLECan there be a modern ‘working-class’ poetry?, 2012https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2012/12/working-class-poetry/
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ARTICLEThe economy of smiles: affect, labour and the contemporary deserving poor, 2018https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-4446.12350
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ARTICLEWhat Are You Worth?: Why Class is an Embarrassing Subject', Andrew Sayer, 2002https://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/3/sayer.html
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ARTICLEKit de Waal: 'Make room for working class writers', 2018https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/10/kit-de-waal-where-are-all-the-working-class-writers-
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ARTICLEExchange, Value and Affect: Bourdieu and ‘the self’, Beverley Skeggs, 2004https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00525.x?journalCode=sora
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ARTICLEStruggles for value: value practices, injustice, judgment, affect and the idea of class, Beverley Skeggs, Vik Loveday, 2012https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2012.01420.x
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ARTICLEImagining Personhood Differently: Person Value and Autonomist Working-Class Value Practices, Beverely Skeggs, 2011https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02018.x?journalCode=sora
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ARTICLEChav Mum, Chav Scum, Class disgust in contemporary Britain, Imogen Tyler, 2008https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680770701824779
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ARTICLE‘Sticky Subjects’ or ‘Cosmopolitan Creatives’? Social Class, Place and Urban Young People’s Aspirations.., Kim Allen, Sumi Hollingworth, 2013https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098012468901
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ARTICLEClassificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times, Imogen Tyler, 2015https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-954X.12296?journalCode=sora
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ARTICLEThe UK is still educating different classes for different functions in society, Diane Reay, 2017https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/12/27/the-uk-is-still-educating-different-classes-for-different-functions-in-society/
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ARTICLEBritish education: still selecting and rejecting in order to rear an elite, Diane Reay, 2020https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/british-education-still-selecting-and-rejecting-in-order-to-rear-an-elite/
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ARTICLEI was born black and working class. The identities need not be in opposition, David Olusoga, 2019https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/13/i-was-born-black-and-working-class-the-identities-need-not-be-in-opposition
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ARTICLEClass, Race and Inequality in Northern Towns, 2019https://www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/class-race-and-inequality-in-northern-towns
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ARTICLEAnti-Working Class discrimination is rife across the UK’s universities – it’s time to make Class a protected characteristic, Emily O'Sullivan, 2020
https://evolvepolitics.com/anti-working-class-discrimination-is-rife-across-the-uks-universities-its-time-to-make-class-a-protected-characteristic/
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ARTICLEWe Told You So: On Trade, the Working Class Was Right, Christopher R Martin, 2022https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/
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ARTICLERejecting Respectability: On Being Unapologetically Working Class, Sarah Attfield, 2016https://workingclassstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/jwcs-vol-1-issue-1-december-2016-attfield.pdf
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ARTICLEHow does using the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers inform our historiographical view of the working class experience of 1980s?https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VsHAaBWV8Bmb5UNtU8f5K24Dw1seAYRXJpMwcqDEMKM/edit#heading=h.vivmi0euwo8z
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ARTICLEAre we all in this together? Working class women are carrying the work burden of the pandemic, Tracey Warren, Clare Lyonette, 2020https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/11/12/are-we-all-in-this-together-working-class-women-are-carrying-the-work-burden-of-the-pandemic/
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ARTICLEThe uses and abuses of class: Left nationalism and the denial of working class multiculture, Sivamohan Valluvan, 2019https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038026118820295
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WATCHThe Arbor, Andrea Dunbar, (BFI Free Trial) https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-the-arbor-2010-online
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WATCHUbuWeb - A free resource of artists film, sound and other work, that is otherwise difficult to find and viewhttps://ubu.com
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WATCHPrometheus, Tony Harrison, 1998https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQ5vyzpIu0&t=3244s&ab_channel=OswaldMosleystolemysocks
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WATCHMade in Doncaster: I am not your subject, John Domokos, Bruno Rinvolucri, Rachel Horne, Ryan Harston and morehttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2021/mar/19/made-in-doncaster-i-am-not-your-subject-video?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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WATCHDivide and Rule - Never! https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-divide-and-rule-never-1978-online
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WATCHClass of StruggleIcarus Films: Class of Struggle
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WATCHWapping - The Workers Storyhttp://www.platformfilms.co.uk/wapping/
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WATCHTaste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/439975/index.html
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WATCHBlue Scar - Jill Craigiehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172186/
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WATCHSaturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe (book and film) http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/440628/index.html
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WATCHNae Pasaran - Felipe Bustos Sierrahttps://naepasaran.com/
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WATCHFinally got the News - League of Revolutionary Black Workershttp://icarusfilms.com/if-fin
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WATCHBoys From The Black Stuff (TV Series)
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WATCHWhen the boat comes in (TV Series)
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WATCHWhatever happened to the Likely Lads (TV Series)
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WATCHWe Art the Lambeth Boys
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LISTENUnited Kingdom Podcast What does it mean to be British? BBC Soundshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0863v08
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LISTENThe 18% Podcast - Celebrating Working Class Artists and Creativeshttps://the18podcast.podbean.com/
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LISTENTrue Currency - feminist economics (for anyone thinking about unwaged labour etc. V good. Esp w/class mothers and also invisible economies)https://open.spotify.com/show/12oAnU7sYno74Du9v3Mmos?si=D1DtK6QSSWSiXqbsro6ANg
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FREE LEARNINGFree social media guide by Monica BalazWCC | Socials
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FREE LEARNINGA guide for early career artists https://www.artquest.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/PRIMER.pdf
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FREE LEARNINGCarlosromo are offering free of charge design and consultancy hours with the aim of creating community and skills exchange.https://www.carlosromo.co.uk/community
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FREE LEARNINGHelp With Fundinghttps://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/fundinglibrary
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FREE LEARNINGFree Funding, Risk Assessment and consent form Templates:http://www.cvan.art/news/2016/8/22/artist-and-partner-toolkit
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FREE LEARNINGFree training and resources on issues such as community organising, intersectionality and working class historieshttps://www.ellabakerorganising.org.uk/resources
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FREE LEARNINGresearch and resources on working class marriagehttps://workingclassmarriage.gla.ac.uk/
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FREE LEARNINGworking class history in London mappedhttps://www.layersoflondon.org/map/search?show_results=true&q=working%20class&tag_ids=
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FREE LEARNINGGlasgow rent strikeshttps://www.rs21.org.uk/2015/06/12/1915-glasgow-rent-strike-how-workers-fought-and-won-over-housing/
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FREE LEARNINGonline exhibitions at the People’s History Museumhttps://phm.org.uk/
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FREE LEARNINGexhibitions and collections at the Working Class Movement Libraryhttps://www.wcml.org.uk/
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FREE LEARNINGPeople’s Museum Somers Townhttps://aspaceforus.club/tag/somers-town-history-club/
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FREE LEARNINGTrades Union Congress library onlinehttps://student.londonmet.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/special-collections/trades-union-congress-library-collections/
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FREE LEARNINGOnline exhibition about the Women in the Miners Strikehttps://www.coalfield-women.org/
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FREE LEARNINGA website helping creatives, sharing jobs, articles, and advicehttps://www.creativelivesinprogress.com/
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TWITTERSAuthor of A Working Class State of Mindhttps://twitter.com/ColinBurnett16