À l’école de la ville : contre-cultures expérimentales dans les années 1970 by Adélaïde Boëlle-Dupouy

“…Starting from Riccardo Dalisi’s street workshops from 1971 to 1974 in Naples with children who had dropped out of school, we will see how architects, artists and designers propose the reintroduction of children into the street and public spaces of working-class neighborhoods.…”
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Territoires de la mémoire en deux webdocumentaires : EntreVilas et Híbridos by Julia Salles, Daniela Zanetti, Tatiana Levin

“…Based on the concept of "territorialization" (Deleuze & Guattari, 1980), we analyze two Brazilian webdocumentaries (Híbridos, 2018, by Priscilla Telmon and Vincent Moon, and EntreVilas, 2018, by Márcia Mansur and Marina Tomé), which take as their starting point a historical research approach (in order to observe different strategies for articulating collective memories with territories, be they the rituals and rhythms of Brazil (Híbridos), or the working-class neighborhoods of Sao Paulo (EntreVilas). …”
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‘The Dung-heap and the Flower’: Gissing’s Nether World by Nigel Messenger

“…This paper examines the creative dynamic behind Gissing’s most successful slum novel, The Nether World, by speculating on Gissing’s own ‘nether world’: in particular, his social disgrace following his conviction for petty theft at Owens College, Manchester and his sexual preference for uneducated, working class girls. Using the concept of ‘abjection’ as theorised by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror, the paper goes on to discuss some of the language, social settings and characters of The Nether World, and concludes by suggesting that Gissing’s novel anticipates some aspects of twentieth-century Modernism.…”
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La question du logement social à New York by Catherine Pouzoulet

“…At the same time, New York City had become sadly famous for housing unrivalled numbers of its working‑class and immigrants in unhealthy, dilapidated tenements. …”
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La parentalité gitane et l’espace urbain : une relation renouvelée ? by David Giband

“…Beyond the singularities specific to sedentary Gypsies, this example shows the way in which the exercise of parenthood in working-class neighborhoods is carried out and renewed, and the central place that the spatial dimension holds.…”
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The Deer Hunter : essai de topologie imaginaire américaine by Jacques Pothier

“…In this film the dichotomies between civilization/the wilderness, male space / female territory, national vs. ethnic identities present in the American imagination from Cooper to the classic western through Washington Irving or Mark Twain, are thoroughly revisited through the tragic counterpointing of a Russian working-class community in a Pennsylvania small town and an Asian heart of darkness. …”
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« This is Hell – Hell - Hell ! » : les éléments dans The Nether World de George Gissing by Fabienne Gaspari

“…In The Nether World, published in 1889, Gissing portrays the squalid life of the working class in London through a very pessimistic vision of British society. …”
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Les inondations à Nancy – Anciennes et nouvelles problématiques by Emmanuel Chiffre, Denis Mathis, Anne Mathis

“…Built in the floodplain of the river, this industrial and working-class district was the most vulnerable. Floods regularly affected this space and leading to its decline. …”
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Notas dispersas sobre las aportaciones de Michel Ralle a la historia del movimiento obrero español. Una necrología tardía by Pere Gabriel

“…Finally, his relationship with Catalonia and the many contributions he made to the working-class history of it are particularly highlighted.…”
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Port Sunlight, essai architectural et social by Laurence Machet

“…Announcing Ebenezer Howard’s garden cities, Port Sunlight endeavours to solve the material problem of working class housing while also addressing other more spiritual needs.…”
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Les nouvelles causes du patrimoine. L’exemple du Musée Urbain Tony Garnier à Lyon by Alain Chenevez

“…The aim was to provide good housing and services for members of the working class, although some professionals also moved in. …”
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Community Based Tourism in the Neoliberal City? Reflections from a “slum area” in Buenos Aires by Triana Sánchez Attanasio

“…This paper analyzes a government project called “Urban Community Tourism” that aimed to bring two working-class neighborhoods in the City of Buenos Aires closer to tourism activity. …”
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Informed choices for some, but not for others: An exploration of Australian midlife women’s participation in mammography screening by social class by Samantha Batchelor, Belinda Lunnay, Sara Macdonald, Paul R Ward

“…We show for middle-class women screening is a ‘given’, they align closely with normative screening expectations. Working-class women who screen, do so out of a sense of compliance. …”
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Gambling and Consumption by Riitta Matilainen

“…Sociologist Emma Casey (2008: 3), who has studied British working-class women’s  xperiences of the National lottery, points out that buying a lottery ticket is a very popular routine purchase with unique mass appeal. …”
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Ici, c’est Noël tous les jours : nostalgie de l’âge d’or et recherche du travail vivant dans le pays de Bitche by Arnaud Kaba

“…The Centre International d'Arts Verriers (International Center for Glassmaking Arts), a public structure for the preservation of glassmaking know-how and experimentation, has achieved success beyond its means by marketing Christmas baubles presented as metonyms of the vanished working-class culture. By examining the friction between local policies to promote know-how and resistance from below for freer, more egalitarian working conditions, the article explores the question of living work as a desire to reproduce a craft without reproducing its logic of domination.…”
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Claiming and defending abortion rights in South Africa by Cathi Albertyn

“…At the same time, it illustrates the importance of political will, feminist narratives and civil society activism in maintaining effective access to safe, legal abortion for poor, black, working class and rural women.…”
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Intra-speaker phonetic micro-variation, and its relationship to phonetic and phonological change by Florent Chevalier

“…This paper looks at intra-speaker phonetic micro-variation patterns in four dyads, recorded in the 1980s in the working-class community of Glasgow. We present the importance of this kind of interaction-based variation in sociolinguistic studies, since short-term speech accommodation is considered to be one of the mechanisms for community-level sound change over time. …”
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Les espaces du graffiti dans les capitales touristiques : l’exemple de Paris et Berlin by Julie Vaslin

“…Erased in high tourist areas, graffiti is tolerated or even promoted in working class areas, where tourism develops off the beaten track. …”
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De la production paysagère à la formation des paysages vécus à Conakry (Guinée) by Julie Gangneux-Kebe

“…This article proposes to take a closer look at these diverse and changing lifestyles practised on a micro scale in the working-class neighbourhoods of the Guinean capital in order to identify new possibilities in landscape design and planning in the tropics.…”
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Ferrol y Vigo en 1972. Historia y memoria de dos huelgas generales by José Gómez Alén

“…What happened that day became the symbol of the Galician workers' struggle for democracy and is, at present, commemorated by the trade union organizations as the Day of the Galician Working Class and institutionally considered as such by the Galician Parliament.…”
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