The Conversation Documentaries
Know Your place part 3: what class means now
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In the third part of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, we explore how class is defined and measured, and how the UK’s changing class identity interacts with identity politics.
Featuring Daniel Evans, lecturer in criminology, sociology and social policy at Swansea University, Gillian Prior, deputy chief executive of the National Centre for Social Research, John Curtice, senior research fellow at the National Centre for Social Research, Oliver Heath, professor of politics at Royal Holloway University of London, Paula Surridge, professor of political sociology at the University of Bristol and Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London.
Know your place is a series supported by the National Centre for Social Research. It's produced and mixed by Anouk Millet for The Conversation. Full credits available here.
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- Can Kemi Badenoch claim to have ‘become working class’ while working in McDonald’s – and why would she want to?
- Deliveroo judgment shows how gig economy platforms and courts are eroding workers’ rights
- Age, not class, is now the biggest divide in British politics, new research confirms
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