KS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Working Class Culture, Common Land
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Representation: images on cave wall (images in film; tv; newspapers; internet; music; etc. ) Speech (everyday speech, comments on images, institutional speech, oppositional speech) society. Relation 1: seating arrangement; access to culture; hierarchy. Relation 2: philosopher, bound to, but distinct from relation 1. Land enclosure acts and land enclosures 1604-1914. Common land privatized (enclosed) and used for production of crops and livestock for profit rather than subsistence. Forced peasants, ie those who worked the land for subsistence, off the land and into the cities where they became the newly emerging working class. Working class worked primarily in the new factories, predominantly textiles, but also handcraft and mining. Culture of the rural peasantry vanished in move to the cities. Borrows from both previous rural culture and culture of cities, but reflects newly emerging values and politics of workers. Tends to be communal and cooperative, but also rowdy and at times aggressive.
