A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience

by Simon J. Charlesworth

Book Overview

Charlesworth examines themes of poverty and class by focusing on a particular town--Rotherham--in South Yorkshire, England, and using the personal testimony of disadvantaged people who live there, acquired through recorded interviews and conversations. He applies to their life stories the interpretative tools of philosophy and social theory, drawing in particular on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Merleau-Ponty. Charlesworth argues the culture described...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521659159
• ISBN13: 9780521659154
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"