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Know Your Place

Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class

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In 21st century Britain, what does it mean to be working class? This book asks 24 working class writers to examine the issue as it relates to them.

Examining representation, literature, sexuality, gender, art, employment, poverty, childhood, culture and politics, this book is a broad and firsthand account of what it means to be drawn from the bottom of Britain's archaic but persistent class structure.

©2017 Nathan Connolly (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Anthropology Social Classes & Economic Disparity Sociology
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Know Your Place is a great anthology from Dead Ink Books looking at what it means to be working class in 21st century Britain. Each essay comes at the topic from a different angle and I really loved the variety of voices. I particularly loved the essays by Andrew McMillan, Rebecca Winson, Kit de Waal, Kath McKay and Sian Norris. It worked brilliantly as an audio edition with several different readers.

Brilliant

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Absolutely excellent book. As a working class female who has had the benefit of social mobility, I often find that those around me do not understand the hurdles that working class people have to overcome to be lucky enough to have the benefit of social mobility.

I am proud of my background but at many times I’ve been made to feel ashamed. This book spoke to me on many levels and highlights things I’ve experienced with many ‘yes! I’m not the only one who feels like that’ moments.

Class is often a blanket term and those from the working classes are often brushed over. These important, interesting stories should be heard by everyone.

Important, interesting a must for everyone

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This fantastic collection offers real insight into lives that often pass unseen and unheard, because it suits our society to imagine that those we don't hear are somehow lesser or ignorant rather than systematically suppressed. There is so much joy, anger, passion and talent in these pieces I am keen to search out the other books by these authors.I learned an enormous amount from these essays, although this was absorbed under the radar as the enjoyment of the narrative was always the prime factor. In this instance the choice of readers enhances the essays, unlike many other audible books. I really can't recommend this enough. If you read to open a door on other people's experience then this book kicks that wide open for you.
More of this please publishers and audible!

A wonderful polyphonic book, highly recommended.

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Working class authors speaking for themselves. Give it a listen if you're reading this review.

fantastic

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Unlike what you hear about on the news, this is the plurality of working class voices and dispels myths of the scrounger narrative and the idea of bigotry coming from below, not above.

Actual voice of the working class

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