Working-class culture

Working-class culture or proletarian culture is a range of cultures created by or popular among working-class people. The cultures can be contrasted with high culture and folk culture, and are often equated with popular culture and low culture (the counterpart of high culture). Working-class culture developed during the Industrial Revolution. Because most of the newly created working class were former peasants, the cultures took on much of the localised folk culture. This was soon altered by the changed conditions of social relationships and the increased mobility of the workforce and later by the marketing of mass-produced cultural artefacts such as prints and ornaments and commercial entertainment such as music hall and cinema.

In academia, working-class socio-economic circumstances are conventionally associated with alcoholism,[1] domestic abuse,[2] obesity[3] and delinquency.[4]

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  3. ^ Mayor, Susan (2017-01-11). "Socioeconomic disadvantage is linked to obesity across generations, UK study finds". BMJ. 356: j163. doi:10.1136/bmj.j163. ISSN 0959-8138. PMID 28077364. S2CID 34513729.
  4. ^ "Why do white working class pupils fail in school?". BBC News. 2014-06-18. Retrieved 2023-02-11.