KS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Working Class Culture, F. R. Leavis, Sex Pistols
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**people could not enter middle class without getting rid of working class culture. Common land privatized (enclosed) and used for production of crops ad livestock for profit rather than subsidence. Forced peasants, i. e. 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, predominately 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 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. Opposed by both conservatives and liberals marx and arnold. Pre-world war i demands for rights of both men and women world war i (1914-1918) Fr leavis: popular culture and in particular american popular culture will lead to the downfall of great.
