Lower-Middle-Class Nation

<i>Lower-Middle-Class Nation</i>provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class worker in British life since 1850. Considering highbrow lowbrow and middle-brow forms across literature film television and more Nicola Bishop traces the development of the lower-middle-class from the mid-19th century to the present day tackling a number of pressing consistent concerns such as automation commuting and the search for a life/work balance. Above all this book brings together ideas about class nationhood and gender demonstrating that a particularly British lower-middle-class identity is constructed through the spaces and practices of the everyday.<br/><br/>Aimed at undergraduate postgraduates and scholars working in media and social history literature popular culture cultural studies and sociology <i>Lower-Middle-Class Nation</i>represents a new direction in cultural histories of work labour and leisure.