Illusive Identity: The Blurring of Working Class Consciousness in Modern Western Culture - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0739103482 ISBN 13: 9780739103487

Casa editrice: Lexington Books, 2002

Riassunto

Illusive Identity is a transnational exploration of the evolution of working-class consciousness within modern Western culture. The work traces how the rise of popular culture blurred the definition and dulled the influence of class identity in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters tackling changing class consciousness in Britain, Germany, Italy, and the United States offer rich insight into the movement from a traditional community-based social identity to a modern consumer-based culture; a mass culture influenced by industrialization, new social institutions, and the powerful imagery of new media. Illusive Identity vividly demonstrates the transformative impact of modernity on the laboring classes, as advertising, entertainment, and the rise of the popular press replaced traditionally shared narratives about the nature of work with a new and liberating cultural paradigm.

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Thomas J. Edward Walker is Professor of History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences at The Pennsylvania College of Technology. He is the author of Pluralistic Fraternity: A History of the International Worker's Order (1991).

Thomas J. Edward Walker is Professor of History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences at The Pennsylvania College of Technology. He is the author of Pluralistic Fraternity: A History of the International Worker's Order (1991).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Lexington Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0739103482
• ISBN 13: 9780739103487
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 210
• Redattore: Walker Thomas J. Edward
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile