The cultural turn and a new social history: folk dance and the renovation of class in social history.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Walkowitz, Daniel J. | Copyright information

Class has largely disappeared as a useful category of analysis in social history, most especially for the social history of the recent past. While this is a problem general to social history, it is especially acute in the well-established field of labor history and in the burgeoning new field of middle-class studies. For the most part, labor history has focused on industrial working-class communities and, predominantly, on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries where their st...

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