Word: working-class
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...Growing up in a working-class section of Senegal's capital Dakar, Kane listened to European music on the radio and fell in love with the Nigerian Afro-beat pioneer Fela Kuti, whose own music reflected a melee of African and Western styles. As is common in his home country, Kane had trouble finding work. Many young Senegalese dream of making a living abroad, some of whom brave a treacherous journey in the open seas on rickety boats to get to Europe...
...frontier. After the cousins bring in the rest of their relatives, it’s only a short time until the story catches up to the birth and life of the narrator, which is when the book really takes off.Munro’s work has dealt predominantly with the lives of working-class young women, dissecting them with sympathy and sharp observation. Since the narrator of “Castle Rock” (presumably Munro herself, living out fictionalized situations) is such a character, Munro is at her strongest when she recalls her childhood and adolescence. The lively writing...
...votes everywhere, even from the [far-right] National Front," she told TIME. "There are 30% of leftist voters who vote for the National Front because they're exasperated--they're in unstable jobs or insecure neighborhoods. Rather than worrying about the center, the left had better work on this working-class constituency, which is casting protest votes for extreme candidates because it is suffering...
...Britain? For all its recent economic and cultural success, Britain has not left all the old wounds of class division behind it. Contrary to popular belief, social mobility in the country has stalled. The absolute number of white-collar jobs is rising, but research shows that the chance of getting from the bottom 10% of society to the top 10% is dropping. A middle-class child is 15 times more likely to become a middle-class adult than a working-class child is to make it into the middle class, "and private schools are undoubtedly part of that story," says...
...Wellons and Bercaw attribute this to changing demographics, as working-class residents have been forced out of Cambridge by rising property values. This has driven down enrollment in Cambridge public schools and alienated people who work in Cambridge but can’t afford to live there...