Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Great essays. Of course some better than others, but overall excellent. Love hearing from different voices and backgrounds.
Thought listing the authors and essays contained would be useful, and listed below.
Introduction
1. Abondance Matanda – The First Galleries I Knew Were Black Homes
2. Laura Waddell – The Pleasure Button: Low Income Food Inequality
3. Yvonne Singh – More Than Just a Dream Land: Why the British Seaside Means So Much to the Working Class
4. Dominic Grace – The Death of a Pub
5. Sylvia Arthur – My Jobs, My Lives
6. Kit De Waal – An Open Invitation: What Happened to Working Class Writers?
7. Durre Shahwar – Navigating Space
8. Sam Mills – The Benefits Cut
9. Andrew McMillan – One of Us: Some Thoughts on Sexuality and the Working Class
10. Wally Jiagoo – Glass Windows and Glass Ceilings
11. Catherine O’Flynn – Heroes
12. Rebecca Winson – Disguised Malicious Murder: The Working Class and Mental Health
13. Ben Gwalchmai – Where There’s Shit, There’s Gold
14. Cath Bore – The Housework Issue (The Other One)
15. Gena-mour Barrett – Living on an Estate gave me a Community I Never Knew I Needed
16. Lee Rourke – Hotpicking: Forging a Path in the Edulations of Fiction
17. Kath McKay – Reclaiming the Vulgar
18. Alexandros Plasatis – The Immigrant of Narborough Road
19. Peter Sutton – Education, Education, Education
20. Sian Norris – Growing Up Outside Class
21. Rym Kechacha – What Colour is a Chameleon?
22. Kate Fox – The Wrong Frequency
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