Stories
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Surviving as a working-class woman without work
An enforced period of unemployment was extremely tough for Claire Hart, a working-class woman with a strong work ethic. Here she describes her feelings during this difficult time.
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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
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The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
- Interview
Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies
Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.
Catalogue
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Working class dwellings.
London County Council.Date: 1897- Books
Working class queers : the queer working class zine project. Issue #1.
Footprint Workers Co-opDate: 2013- Books
Working class cultures in Britain, 1890-1960 : gender, class, and ethnicity / Joanna Bourke.
Bourke, Joanna.Date: 1994- Books
Working class youth culture / edited by Geoff Mungham and Geoff Pearson.
Date: 1976- Books
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Working class radicals : the Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920 / Frederick A. Barkey ; with a foreword by Ken Fones-Wolf.
Barkey, Frederick ADate: 2012