Gender Politics in Nigeria: A Socio-Political Analysis of Women’s Perspectives on Feminism, Feminist Politics, and Democracy by Victor Jatula, Olusegun Adesanya

“…Using feminist political philosophy as its theoretical framework, and mixed methods to gather data, this study interrogated Nigerian feminism, feminist politics, and democracy through the lens of 100 working-class women. Findings reveal the existential struggles of participants whose material deprivation and political powerlessness have increased apathy towards gender politics, elections, and political institutions. …”
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Early Swimming Clubs: A Question of Class by Win Hayes

“…The third group are the working class individuals who sought leisure activity that was inexpensive, easy to access, provided some form of entertainment and provided respite from the constant effort of work and the harsh living conditions that many of them endured.…”
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Apocalypse, Gothic and Rupturing of Societal Hierarchy: An Interpretation of Marxian Tendencies in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Sanghamitra Ghatak

“…The depiction of a zombie apocalypse in this context can be interpreted as an embodiment of Marx’s critique, where the capitalist system thrives at the expense of the working class, metaphorically represented by the blood-sucking zombies. …”
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The crisis of the political left in Northern Europe (the example of the Labour Party in Norway) by Ivan R. Skripka

“…The article examines the reasons for the party’s loss of contact with its traditional base, including the working class and youth, as well as the growing dissatisfaction with the policies of its leader, Jonas Gahr Støre. …”
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Images de l’étrange : Punch ou la re-présentation du paradigme bourgeois by Françoise Baillet

“…Aristocratic indulgence as well as working-class so-called « degeneration » found themselves relentlessly pinpointed. …”
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Anton Nilsson et l’écho d’une bombe. Malmö, 1908-1917 by Lars Berggren, Roger Johansson

“…He was a member of the Young Socialist movement in the working-class city of Malmö, he placed a bomb on the ship Amalthea, which housed 73 English strike breakers, in connection with an extensive dock worker conflict in the Swedish ports. …”
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Ben Fletcher et les IWW sur les quais de Philadelphie. Un modèle de syndicalisme interracial au début du 20e siècle by Peter Cole

“…In short, Fletcher and a bunch of so-called “unskilled” working-class Black and white men, native-born and immigrant, managed to do what few American institutions have yet achieved: equality and integration.…”
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THE EVOLUTION AND TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND MOVEMENTS IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF LABOUR PARTY OF NIGERIA by Toye Manuwa

“…Finally, the paper assesses the impact of the LPN on Nigerian politics and society, and its prospects for the future, considering its role as a voice for the working class, a catalyst for progressive change and a partner for national unity. …”
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Travail, Mémoires et Femmes dans la ceinture industrielle de Lisbonne (Portugal) by Inês Fonseca

“…The whole industrial belt underwent a swift process of industrialization however the stability that this offered to this working class population was short lived. While Baixa da Banheira was a pole of attraction, during the sixties, the region experienced a slow decline in the eighties. …”
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The Culture as System, the System of Culture: Aleksandr Bogdanov on Proletarian Culture and Proletarian Art by Soboleva Maja

“…My analysis focuses on proletarian art as a form of the self-consciousness (ideology) of the working class.…”
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Maoïsme et éducation partisane. L’utopie éducative et la Révolution Culturelle by Roland Depierre

“…It meant to Change Man and to re-educate men, to abolish the Three Great differences separating workers from peasants, cities from rural areas, and intellectuals from manual workers; it also aimed at reducing the Three separations isolating the intelligentsia from proletarian politics, and from peasant and working class life. Finally, it intended to radically transform the intellectuals’ ideology through the assimilation of dialectical materalism. …”
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Polariser l'écart : la mise en scène du décalage dans Fram de Tony Harrison by Catherine Lanone

“…Polar opposites: discrepancy in Tony Harrison's Fram: Proud of his origins, Tony Harrison blends in his work the memory of his working-class background and of the vast literary tradition he descends from, from Greek tragedy to Shakespeare or Keats. …”
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Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Sociology of the Arts by Biggart John

“…I argue that for Bogdanov, “proletarian culture” was not the working class “mentalité” of his time, but a state of mind that with the assistance of his brainchild, the Proletarian Cultural-Educational Organization, would evolve in the direction of a collectivist, “all-human”, culture. …”
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Habitat des personnes âgées, l’intergénérationnalité au pouvoir ? by Maël Gauneau, Manon Labarchède, Guy Tapie

“…This article analyses the production channels of intergenerational housing based on two types: intergenerational residences, which focus on senior-family relationships, and cohabitation, which focuses on senior-student or young working-class relationships. Based on a socio-spatial analysis of operations and situations related to intergenerational housing, combining semi-directive interviews (30) and in situ observations, our work highlights a complex implementation of intergenerational living, which cannot be considered as a “turnkey” formula, based solely on the fact that several generations live side by side. …”
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The Crack in the Cornerstone: Victorian Identity Conflicts and the Representation of the Sepoy Mutiny in Metropolitan and Anglo-Indian Novels by Flaminia Nicora

“…Anglo-Indians resented the ambiguity of their double status of heroes and exploiters and often tried an ante litteram “writing back”. The working class was silenced and only one novel portrays the role and point of view of simple soldiers in the Mutiny. …”
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Beyond Anything Realism Can Represent? Monstrous Crime in Marx’s Victorian Novel by Jayson Althofer

“…Following Friedrich Engels’s <i>The Condition of the Working Class in England</i> (1845), Marx detects and dissects capitalism’s crimes. …”
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Les configurations de l'espace économique et la crise politique en Belgique by Christian Vandermotten

“…Even if a very large majority of Brussels' population is French-speaking (at least in the public sphere), working-class Wallonia took long to become aware of the importance of an economic and political solidarity with the capital, seen as “the city of capitalists”. …”
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Entre a posição e as práticas: classes médias nas perspectivas de Erik Olin Wright e Pierre Bourdieu by Luís Fernando Santos Corrêa da Silva

“…Erik Olin Wright 's neomarxist theory seeks to overcome the social classes growth in the capitalist development process through the idea of "contradictory class location", as, regardless of the fact that the middle class sells its labour force, it also owns quality and authority assets which differentiate it from the traditional working class. However, Pierre Bourdieu's theory ofsocial space emphasising the symbolic dimension of class relations highlights some features that would be particular to middle classes, such as the moral rigidity the asceticism, valorisation of education and culture and the focus on individual merit as a form of upward social mobility. …”
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De la Mer du Nord à la Méditerranée, l’imaginaire maritime des Victoriens by Béatrice Laurent

“…The second half of the century invents the Mediterranean Sea as the cradle of civilization, whereas Northern beaches are gradually given up to the middle- and then working-classes. The concomitance between these two statements suggests that it is precisely to flee resorts such as Blackpool and its working-class vacationers, that the prevailing view changes its perception of the Mediterranean Sea and discovers the charms of hedonism and of antique balneology. …”
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Some aspects of privatization effects on the labor market in the Republic of Serb by Zimonjić Stefan

“…It is not hard to understand the reasons, privatization is hard to sell in political and social terms, it leads to many unpopular decisions and impacts on the working class, it brings changes that are sometimes hard to understand and accept, as positive, people that are perceived as unproductive, lose their jobs and stay without income in very volatile external conditions. …”
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