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In: Sosiologisk tidsskrift: journal of sociology, Volume 10, Issue 2, p. 112-141
ISSN: 1504-2928
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In: Sosiologisk tidsskrift: journal of sociology, Volume 10, Issue 2, p. 112-141
ISSN: 1504-2928
In: Social Sciences: open access journal, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 10
ISSN: 2076-0760
What has happened with the image of the working class? The hero in the construction of the Nordic Model was the labor movement (and the working class). For a long time, this was the dominant picture of the Norwegian working class. However, the societal trends of the past decades have, in a peculiar way, given the working class a central place in political discussions and in the public sphere, but now, a more ambivalent image emerges. In a somewhat paternalistic way, the worker image in political and academic debates as well as in part of the public sphere is typically that of a person unsuccessful in the educational system. Even a third image is identifiable in the public sphere—a prejudice imagery—in which the class is labelled as unhealthy, abusing the welfare system, culturally unsophisticated, and politically dangerous, moving toward right-wing populism. The ambition of the paper is to present these different images of the working class.
In: Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning: TfS = Norwegian journal of social research, Volume 49, Issue 2, p. 265-272
ISSN: 1504-291X
In: Cultura: international journal of philosophy of culture and axiology, Volume 13, Issue 1, p. 7-27
ISSN: 2065-5002