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  2. Working class education - Wikipedia

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    Working-class parents put less emphasis on planned activities, than their middle class counterparts, because they are less likely to have the funds to pay for them. [ 5 ] The problem that comes with these differences in parenting practices is that schools, along with other institutions, are more harmonious with concerted cultivation, the ...

  3. Working class - Wikipedia

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    The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition. [1] [2] Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from wage labour.

  4. Life and Labour of the People in London - Wikipedia

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    Life and Labour of the People in London was a multi-volume book by Charles Booth which provided a survey of the lives and occupations of the working class of late 19th century London. The first edition was published in two volumes as Life and Labour of the People, Vol. I (1889) and Labour and Life of the People, Vol II (1891). [1]

  5. Society and culture of the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    Enrolment at Sunday schools all of which taught children to read and some of which provided lessons in writing and arithmetic increased sharply during the first half of the 19th century from about 10% of five to eighteen-year-olds in 1800 to approximately 55% in 1851. 3/4 of working-class children were estimated to have attended Sunday school ...

  6. Labor history - Wikipedia

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    Labor history is a sub-discipline of social history which specializes on the history of the working classes and the labor movement.Labor historians may concern themselves with issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and other factors besides class but chiefly focus on urban or industrial societies which distinguishes it from rural history.

  7. Proletarian literature - Wikipedia

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    The proletariat are members of the working class.The proletarian novel is a subgenre of the novel, written by workers mainly for other workers.It overlaps and sometimes is synonymous with the working-class novel, [7] socialist novel, [8] social problem novel (also problem novel or sociological novel or social novel), [9] propaganda or thesis novel, [10] and socialist realism novel.

  8. Working-class culture - Wikipedia

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    Working-class culture or proletarian culture is a range of cultures created by or popular among working-class people. The cultures can be contrasted with high culture and folk culture, and are often equated with popular culture and low culture (the counterpart of high culture). Working-class culture developed during the Industrial Revolution.

  9. Labor aristocracy - Wikipedia

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    In Marxist and anarchist theories, the labor aristocracy is the segment of the working class which has better wages and working conditions compared to the broader proletariat, often enabled by their specialized skills, and in a global context by the exploitation of colonized or underdeveloped countries.