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An exploration of digital anime music videos created by Western fans from the 1990s to the early 2000s. [Videos were reuploaded on January 9, 2020.]

This paper seeks to examine the different relationship of two industries to their potential for representation and celebration in collective memory. Looking at case studies of mining and shipbuilding in the shared location of Wearside the paper compares and contrasts features of the two industries in relation to the divergent outcomes of the traces of their collective memory in this place. Using visual representations the paper makes the case that the mining industry has experienced a successful recovery of memory. This is contrasted to the paucity of visual representation in relation to shipbuilding. The reasons for the contrast in the viability of collective memory are examined. Material, cultural and aesthetic issues are addressed. Contrasts are drawn between divisions of labour in the two industries and the ways in which these impact upon community and trade union organisation which further relate to the contrast between industrial and occupational identity. Differences in the legacy of the physical occupational communities of the two industries are illustrated. There is also an examination of the aesthetic forms of representation in which mining is seen as characterised by the aesthetics of labour, whereas shipbuilding is represented more through the aesthetics of product. The way in which the industries were closed also becomes important to understand the variation in the differences of the potential of collective memory. All of these strands are brought together to conclude that in relation to the potential for collective memory, mining can be seen to have gone through a process of 'mourning' whereas melancholia seems to more adequately represent the situation with respect to shipbuilding. In illustrating these cases the paper is arguing for a more sophisticated understanding of the process of deindustrialisation and the potential for the recovery of collective memory.

AbstractThis paper gives an account of working‐class studies as it has developed in the USA and UK. It includes a comparative assessment of ways in which the working‐class and class analysis appear within academe. This argues that the different role played by social classes in the post‐war settlement and its subsequent breakdown can account for divergent fortunes of class analysis in response to similar developments. The paper unpacks some of the opportunities and threats to further development of working‐class studies in the UK. It is argued that the field needs to be developed in a way that is reflexively self‐critical and avoids reproducing middle‐class experience as universal. However, it notes the challenge of opening up space for the working class within the academy, particularly given the problem of the institutional embodiment of class together with the rigid framework of higher education in the UK.

This article suggests that much recent work that relates age to working life is mis-cast in looking at specific age groups in isolation. Rather than addressing the problem of younger or older workers, this article suggests that we need to develop a framework which can more centrally accommodate the inter-generational structures of the social reproduction of the collective worker. Focusing upon current Government concerns to develop an active old age, the article argues that such a strategy is likely to be misconceived unless it can address the changing nature of work within the 'new capitalism'. It is argued that older structures involving the reproduction of a moral order of intergenerational relationships, which could accommodate age as a legitimate difference, are being threatened by strategies which attempt to maximize the efficiency of individual human resources without regard for such difference. In this context the attempt to take age out of the work-place while simultaneously attempting to put older workers back in is likely to be problematic.