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Shhhh! you are now in the This area of the website contains a number of extracts from books, essays and the complete text of some pamphlets. The files are saved in Simple text format, word format for PC or HTMLfor viewing on-line - help yourself...but keep your voice down!
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| Sarah Richardson | on the process of researching and writing "Writing on the Line" | Text | Word | HTML |
| Stefan Szczelkun | Reflections on the first ten years of wORking Press | Text | Word | HTML |
| Howard Slater | The New Wave Film and the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. - An edit from a longer piece of writing that forms part of a project examining the working class and film. | Text | Word | HTML |
| Valerie Walkerdine | excerpt from Working Class Women: Psychological & Social Aspects of Survival. | Text | Word | HTML |
| Book Chapters | ||||
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| Stefan Szczelkun | The Shanty Houses of Britain a chapter extracted from "The Conspiracy of Good Taste" | Text | Word | HTML |
| Matthew Fuller | flyposter FRENZY and the Anti-Copyright network. | Text | Word | HTML |
| New Pamphlets | ||||
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| Stefan Szczelkun | The Heart of the Matter- Diana, democracy and popular culture.Was Princess Diana the most unlikely revolutionary of the 20th Century? This pamphlet analyses the spontaneous popular response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the direct forms of expression shown by ordinary people. | Text | Word | HTML |
| Stefan Szczelkun | Kennington Park - Birthplace of British Democracy April 10th 1998, marked the 150th anniversary of the "Monster Rally" on Kennington Common organised by the Chartists - the world's first National Labour Movement. This pamphlet traces the history of the common and reveals how this significant space has been used by working class Londoners. Kennington Common deserves to be put on the map as a site of international importance - the birthplace of British democracy. |
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| wORking Press reprints | ||||
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| Jack Common | Fake Left (Article first published in the Adelphi 19th March 1933) One of the most original working class writers of the 30s- 50s with an essay which sounds remarkably contemporaneous |
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| Howard Slater | Working Class Novelists 1930 - 1950 A list of British male novelists that the history of literature overlooks but who give insight into working class life and culture that cannot be found elsewhere. |
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| Stefan Szczelkun & Tracy Davidson | Recent Workshops on Social Class Awareness in North
London Schools How the inclusion of class onto the equal opportunities agenda can be practically achieved. |
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These wORking Press short pamphlets are available free of charge These are older wORking Press publications no longer in print. We have no funds to reprint these pamphlets but feel the information and ideas deserve to be distributed. The files may also be available as Pagemaker PC files for you to print out please send an e-mail request.
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