Lower-Middle-Class Nation
Subtitle: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781350064355
Description: "Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class worker in British life since 1850. Considering highbrow, lowbrow, and middle-brow forms across literature, film, television and more, Nicola Bishop traces the development of the lower-middle-class from the mid-19th century to the present day, tackling a number of pressing, consistent concerns such as automation, commuting, and the search for a life/work balance. Above all, this book brings together ideas about class, nationhood, and gender, demonstrating that a particularly British lower-middle-class identity is constructed through the spaces and practices of the everyday"--