working classes

Reviews

The Belhoumi Family and the Sociologist

Adèle Momméja & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 October 2021

What are the objective and intimate conditions for the social ascension of the children of immigrants? And what roles...

Debates

Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods

Pierre Gilbert & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 June 2020

The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through their...

Reviews

Europe and the Question of Social Class

Gilles Laferté & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 May 2020

A recent French work addresses the issue of social class in Europe, considering the different profiles and...

From the Field

How the Youth of the Banlieues See the Gilets Jaunes

Ahmed & Baptiste & Hachimia & Jeremy & Karima & Lisa-Marie & Louiza & Thibaut & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 April 2020

Do the “Yellow Vests” and the youth of France’s banlieues share a common vision of the inequalities and...

Reviews

Aubervilliers: Portrait of a Working-Class Suburb

Anaïs Albert & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 February 2020

The republication of an early-20th‑century realist novel set in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers brings the...

From the Field

Open-Air Auto Shops: Subsistence Jobs in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Collectif Rosa Bonheur & translated by Oliver Waine - 25 October 2019

The informal activities of street mechanics observed by Collectif Rosa Bonheur in northern France attest to a much...

Essays

Urban Renewal in the USA: A Neoliberal Policy?

Thomas Kirszbaum & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 May 2019

By allowing demolitions and evictions in well-located working-class neighborhoods, urban renewal is sometimes...

Debates

Masculine Sports and “Respectable” Men in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Carine Guérandel & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 March 2019

In a work rich in ethnographic material, Akim Oualhaci questions how socialization through sports contributes to the...

Debates

Deafening Discord: Reclaiming Residents’ Anger in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Pierre Chabard & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 October 2018

We recently published an article showing how, in Roubaix in northern France, elected officials took steps to “prevent...

Debates

Silent Suppression: How Local Politicians Stifle Collective Action in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Julien Talpin & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 October 2018

Taking as its starting point a study of a neighborhood roundtable in the northern French city of Roubaix, this...

Reviews

Photographing the Slums of 1900s Berlin

Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 September 2018

At the turn of the 20th century, the dramatically poor conditions of urban working-class housing was a cause of major...

Essays

Far from the Ballot Box: The Political Exclusion of the Working Classes in France

Camille Peugny & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 July 2018

Following the French presidential and parliamentary elections of 2017, the question of equal access to the electoral...

From the Field

Urban Desires and Lust for Land

Éric Denis (†) & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 April 2018

In the Global South, vast swathes of periurban and agricultural land are being sold off and converted into financial...

Essays

Parallel Lives? Elena Ferrante’s Naples and My West New Rochelle

Bella Mirabella - 26 January 2016

Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan novels, which trace the lives of two girls born in a working class district in...

From the Field

The Communists’ Urban Archipelago

Roger Martelli & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 September 2014

While the Socialist Party was the big loser in France’s municipal elections in March, the French Communist Party was...

From the Field

The world of the blue-collar worker: changed, but not gone

Julian Mischi & Olivier Pasquiers & Caroline Pottier & Nicolas Renahy & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 February 2014

Despite deindustrialisation and increasingly acute economic difficulties in the former strongholds of heavy industry,...

Reviews

Gentrification in Paris: the elite versus the people?

Colin Giraud & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 January 2014

Anne Clerval’s latest work on the gentrification of Paris, published in September 2013, caused quite a sensation in...

The Belhoumi Family and the Sociologist

Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods

Europe and the Question of Social Class

How the Youth of the Banlieues See the Gilets Jaunes

Aubervilliers: Portrait of a Working-Class Suburb

Open-Air Auto Shops: Subsistence Jobs in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Urban Renewal in the USA: A Neoliberal Policy?

Masculine Sports and “Respectable” Men in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Deafening Discord: Reclaiming Residents’ Anger in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Silent Suppression: How Local Politicians Stifle Collective Action in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Photographing the Slums of 1900s Berlin

Far from the Ballot Box: The Political Exclusion of the Working Classes in France

Urban Desires and Lust for Land

Parallel Lives? Elena Ferrante’s Naples and My West New Rochelle

The Communists’ Urban Archipelago

The world of the blue-collar worker: changed, but not gone

Gentrification in Paris: the elite versus the people?

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