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David Bowie: Creating a Middle-Class Dream for a Working-Class Fan | Working-Class Perspectives
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Commentary on Working-Class Culture, Education, and Politics. Managing Emigration in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Where Does the Working Class Fit in the Knowledge Economy? David Bowie: Creating a Middle-Class Dream for a Working-Class Fan. August 3, 2015. I recently visited the David Bowie. David Bowie’s own class background is somewhat ambiguous. I’d suggest he was lower middle-class the son of a white collar father and a mother who ‘married up’ (he certainly isn’t a ‘working-class hero’. When so much of...
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Just Not Posh Enough? Social Mobility and the “Class Ceiling” | Working-Class Perspectives
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Commentary on Working-Class Culture, Education, and Politics. Managing Emigration in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland →. Just Not Posh Enough? Social Mobility and the Class Ceiling. July 6, 2015. I was reminded of my time in Durham the other day by a report published by the UK Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission. Under the strapline ‘How to pass the posh test: ‘Do you know Marmaduke Von Snittlebert? The report suggests that despite efforts to increase social mobility over the last ten to fifteen years ...