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100 1 0 _aHart, Elizabeth
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245 0 0 _aAnthropology, Class, and the Big Heads: An Ethnography of Distinction between the “Rough” and the “Posh” among Women Workers in the UK Pottery Industry
260 _c2007.
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520 _aIn the context of the take-over by a global corporation (Royal Doulton) of a family-owned and run pottery factory in Longton Stoke-on-Trent, known as « Beswick », and the subsequent re-structuring of production, this paper explores the way in which women pottery workers make social distinctions between the « rough » and « posh », « proper paintresses » and « big heads » which cut into and across abstract sociological notions of class. The author’s findings support the view that class is best understood not as an abstract generalising category, but in the local and specific contexts of women’s working and family lives.
690 _arough and posh
690 _aBritain
690 _asocial class
690 _apottery fabric
690 _awomen pottery workers
786 0 _nEthnologie française | 37 | 2 | 2007-06-01 | p. 265-274 | 0046-2616
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-ethnologie-francaise-2007-2-page-265?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
999 _c481488
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