Is ‘Doing Your Best’ Ever Enough When You Are Working Class?
In 2016, I wrote about how Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake illustrated the impact of the draconian British welfare system on working-class people. Watching
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Global Affairs Articles
Notre Dame Cathedral and Questions from a Worker Who Reads (after Bertolt Brecht)
When Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire in Paris on April 15, 400 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze. One of those workers was seriously
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The Global Working Class Fights Back
2018 has seen many working-class people around the world standing up for their rights and pushing back against injustice and inequality. Some of
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What Does the New Doctor Who Offer Working-Class Whovians?
The new season of British Sci-Fi show, Doctor Who has created a buzz due to the casting of a woman to play the Doctor for the first
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Working-Class Women Unionists on the Front Lines
On November 16, 2017, thousands of construction workers walked off their job sites to march through central Sydney in protest against laws designed
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Will the British Working Class Stand Up and Fight Back?
I spent my teenage years in 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. Working-class people struggled in a grim environment. Three million people were unemployed, local services
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Greyhound Racing in Australia: The Demise of a Working-Class Pastime (and Why That’s a Good Thing)
The recent announcement that the New South Wales government in Australia was banning Greyhound racing starting in 2017 surprised many. They didn’t expect