Uses of Literacy
Subtitle: Aspects of Working-Class Life
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780141191584
Subjects: Mass media, great britain; Public opinion, great britain; Working class, great britain
Description: "When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in ... 1957 ... Britain was undergoing huge social change, yet his landmark work has lost none of its pertinence today"--Cover.