Working Class

• The Working Class used to be the majority of the population, but it is diminishing
• The Working Class was traditionally made up of manual workers and those with trades
• Hutton (1995) focused on the Working Class
• Hutton (1995) argued that the decline in trade union memberships and the manufacturing sector, and the dispersal of working class communities has eroded working class identity
• Skeggs (1997) focused on the Working Class
• Skeggs (1997) studied working class women who felt humiliated by the ways in which others, such as teachers & doctors, judged and dismissed them due to their working class background
• Skeggs (1997) - As a result of doctors and teachers dismissing working class women, the women made a strenuous effort to show they were 'respectable' by taking care on how they dressed, their home décor and leisure activities