Aug 17, 2018
18th century working-woman’s fashion
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18th century working-woman’s fashion
It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under they sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds of thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world. If there was hope, it lay in the proles!
George Orwell, 1984
What class are you?
What class are you?
Social class (or, simply, class), as in class society, is a set of concepts in the social sciences and political theory centred on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle, and lower classes.
In common parlance, the term “social…
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Connie thought, how extremely like all the rest of the classes the lower classes sounded. Just the same thing over again, Tevershall or Mayfair or Kensington. There was only one class nowadays: moneyboys. The moneyboy and the moneygirl, the only difference was how much you’d got, and how much you wanted.
D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Only when the lower classes do not want the old way, and when the upper classes cannot carry on in the old way- only then can revolution triumph.
Lenin-quoted in Louis Althusser’s For Marx
Bizarre Victorian fact of the day...
In the 19th century even the poorest members of society tried to have a set of smart clothes which they kept for 'Sunday best', usually to wear to church. Many of these lower classes lived in cramped, overcrowded conditions and had no safe place to store such special items. It was common practice for people in this situation to pawn their Sunday best clothes on Monday morning and then redeem the pledge to retrieve them on Saturday. This process would be repeated every week. Many pawnbrokers in London had storage space set aside purely for this purpose.