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Article: The cultural turn and a new social history: folk dance and the renovation of class in social history.
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2006
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Class has largely disappeared as a useful category of analysis in social history, most especially for the social history of the recent past. While this is a problem general to social history, it is especially acute in the well-established field of labor history and in the burgeoning new field of middle-class studies. For the most part, labor history has focused on industrial working-class communities and, predominantly, on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries where their struggles were most evident and heroic. (1) In contrast to the growth of middle-class studies, some historians fear that in the opening decade of the twenty-first century, labor history is in ...
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