Modern Classics the Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Lass Life

by Richard Hoggart

Book Overview

When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good?

When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change, yet his landmark work has lost none of its pertinence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141191589
• ISBN13: 9780141191584
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"