Class and Everyday Life

Exploring issues of class in through in-depth studies of housing, sport, art, music, and politics in Britain, Class and Everyday Life persuasively demonstrates the pervasive influence of class on everyday life and the need to centre a radical understanding of class within emancipatory political movements.

Author: Kirsteen Paton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/29/2023
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781138927384

About the Author

Kirsteen Paton is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Class at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research explores issues of class and the impact of urban restructuring, gentrification, evictions and large-scale sporting events on working-class communities. This includes analyses of the changing urban political economy and class and everyday life in neighbourhoods and cities. Her most recent work explores evictions and housing struggles with a strong focus on local community resistance. She is the author of Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective (Routledge, 2014).