Class and Everyday Life

Exploring issues of class in through in-depth studies of housing, sport, art, music, and politics in Britain, Class and Everyday Life persuasively demonstrates the pervasive influence of class on everyday life and the need to centre a radical understanding of class within emancipatory political movements.

Kirsteen Paton is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Class at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research explores issues of class and the impact of urban restructuring, gentrification, evictions and large-scale sporting events on working-class communities. This includes analyses of the changing urban political economy and class and everyday life in neighbourhoods and cities. Her most recent work explores evictions and housing struggles with a strong focus on local community resistance. She is the author of Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective (Routledge, 2014).

Introduction 1. Is the Cupboard Bare? Conjunctural class analysis from aspiration to austerity 2. Class and Space: Housing finance and the real 'left behind' 3. Class and Sport: The unlevel playing field of austerity and neoliberalism 4. Class and Art: The politics of creativity 5. Class and Music: No ticket to ride? 6. The Politics of Class