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Illusive Identity
The Blurring of Working Class Consciousness in Modern Western Culture
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2002
Summary
Illusive Identity is a transnational exploration of the evolution of working-class consciousness within modern Western culture. The work traces how the rise of popular culture blurred the definition and dulled the influence of class identity in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters tackling changing class consciousness in Britain, Germany, Italy, and the United States offer rich insight into the movement from a traditional community-based social identity to a modern consumer-based culture; a mass culture influenced by industrialization, new social institutions, and the powerful imagery of new media. Illusive Identity vividly demonstrates the transformative impact of modernity on the laboring classes, as advertising, entertainment, and the rise of the popular press replaced traditionally shared narratives about the nature of work with a new and liberating cultural paradigm.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0348-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5618-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
201
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1. Cocoa and Class in British Popular Press Advertising: A Process of Cultural Agency Daniel J. Doyle No access Pages 11 - 39
2. Nazi Labor to 1939: From Working-Class Consciousness to the "People's Community" Douglas A. Lea No access Pages 40 - 57
3. Italian Workers and Paradiso: The Don Camillo Stories of Giovanni Guareschi in Their Historical Setting Pietro Lorenzini No access Pages 58 - 91
4. From Guthrie through Dylan to Springsteen: Losing the Working Touch David S. Sims No access Pages 92 - 111
5. AStruggle for Hearts and Minds: Labor Age and the Popular Press, 1920-1930 Cynthia Gwynne Yaudes No access Pages 112 - 144
6. Tainted Sources: GovemmentlMedia Misrepresentations in the Case of the International Workers Order Thomas J. Edward Walker No access Pages 145 - 186
