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Deirdre O’Neill is a working class lecturer and filmmaker. Her forthcoming book Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool explores the way in which film can be used as a means of working class people representing their own lives. Mike Wayne has written widely on the politics and ideology of film, television and the media as well as Marxist cultural theory. His most recently published book is Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique (Bloomsbury, 2014). List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors i 1 Introduction Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne Part 1: Class Theory 2 Class and the Classical Marxist Tradition Joseph Choonara 3 Social Class and Education Dave Hill 4 Marxist Class Theory: Competition, Contingency and Intermediate Class Positions Jonathan Pratschke 5 Class Segregation Danny Dorling 6 The ‘Secret’ of the Restoration: Increased Class Exploitation Maurizio Donato and Roberto Taddeo Part 2: Class and Culture 7 Exploitation, Oppression, and Epistemology Holly Lewis 8 Peasants, Migrants and Self-Employed Workers: The Masks that Veil Class Affiliation in Latin America: The Argentine Case Marina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli 9 Capitalism, Class and Collective Identity: Social Movements and Public Services in South Africa Adrian Murray 10 On Intellectuals Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne 11 The British Working Class Post-blair Consensus: We Do Not Exist Lisa Mckenzie 12 From Class Solidarity to Cultural Solidarity: Immigration, Crises, and the Populist Right Ferruh Yilmaz 13 Recovering the Australian Working Class Tony Moore, Mark Gibson and Catharine Lumby Part 3: Class and the Media 14 ‘Everything Changes. Everything Stays the Same’: Documenting Continuity and Change in Working Class Lives Anita Biressi 15 Ghettos and Gated Communities in the Social Landscape of Television: Representations of Class in 1982 and 2015 Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson 16 Class, Culture and Exploitation: The Case of Reality tv Milly Williamson 17 Class Warfare, the Neoliberal Man and the Political Economy of Methamphetamine in Breaking Bad Michael Seltzer 18 ‘The Thing Is I’m Actually from Bromley’: Queer/Class Intersectionality in Pride (2014) Craig Haslop Index
