Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000

In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance, while others argue that class identities lost little power. Neither interpretation is satisfactory: class remained important to ''ordinary'' people''s narratives about social change and their own identities throughout the period 1968-2000, but in changing w...