The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life by Richard Hoggart

The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life

Media, Communication, and Culture in America

Richard Hoggart with Simon Hoggart, Lynsey Hanley

370 pages first pub 1957 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative reflective fast-paced
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This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media. First published in 1957, it mapped out a new methodology in cultural studies based around interdisciplinarity and a concern with h...

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