Sentences with phrase «century working class»

Without his pictures, Britain would arguably lack an account in paint of the experiences of the 20th - century working class.

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In his book, The Rise of Creative Class, Richard Florida says that fewer than 10 percent of Americans were doing creative work at the turn of the 20th century.

The positive proof of this negative judgment is the enormous appeal of Methodism to the English working classes of the eighteenth century.

Thinking of Michal Williams, sitting alone in the apartment, and reading these poems, I suddenly thought of another twentieth - century disaster - marriage, that of the great painter Stanley Spencer, whose visions of Christianity led him to paint the general resurrection in the small - town churchyard of Cookham, and whose Christ was a working - class Englishman of 1930s vintage.

In the U.K. during the nineteenth century, standards of living for the working class rose by 1,600 percent.

Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

For Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.

We could use progressive strategies of redistribution to make everyone in America a comfortable consumer and still face widespread personal, working - class dissatisfaction if we don't address the basic human need for work, a need more fundamental than the desire to possess twenty - first - century consumer goods.

A century earlier John Wesley and his brother Charles had written hundreds of hymns which stirred working class people in England, and this tradition continued in America through such writers as Timothy Dwight, Samuel Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and more recently Henry Sloane Coffin and Harry Emerson Fosdick.

It is Lasch's contention that when one takes all this civic activity into account, and adds the wage work of lower - class women, one has to move the appearance of full - time homemaking on a broad scale from the late nineteenth century to the post-World War II period.

The goal was lessons on discipline, work ethic and equality: A working - class man whose ancestors had come to America from Germany in the 18th century as indentured servants had no intention of passing along the ways of racial segregation that marked that place in time.

In 17th century England, for instance, it was typically upper - class women who hired wet nurses, while working - class women nursed their own children.

The Hogarthian degradation of the 18th century's «gin craze» - which prompted a series of «Gin Acts» and a middle - class fear of the dissipation of the working class's energy and morals - led to the banning of absinthe in much of Europe.

Could you parachute a Caroline Flint onto a Working Class Constituency represented by male miners for a century?

Did they fail to adjust to the needs of the electorate with the enfranchisement of working class males towards the end of the 19th century?

Replacing the 19th - century leisure class is a 21st - century «superordinate working class», says the paper by Professor Jonathan Gershuny and Dr Kimberly Fisher.

The study says the best - educated men used to work much shorter hours for pay — an echo still, in the 1960s, of the end - of - the - 19th - century leisure class.

In the past, tans were associated with lower classes who worked outdoors — in contrast with the Southern belles of more than a century ago, who used parasols to protect their skin and to look pale and refined.

This class combines innovative strength work with centuries - old yoga poses to build both the stability and strength that we need as runners.

A literary work with exquisite production values and a vivid portrait of class differences in Boston social life at the turn of the century.

After hitting us with the raw facts of the crime, as well as a phone call in which he attempts to connect with the original prosecutor and is stone - walled by her cold refusal to talk, Ford goes back into his family's history to unveil a story of racism and optimism, of what hope and hardship and upward mobility meant to a working - class African - American family in the middle of the century.

When Twentieth Century Fox and producer Lauren Shuler Donner brought director Bryan Singer back into the X-Men film universe with X-Men: First Class - a movie Singer was originally set to direct - little did we know that the man behind the first two X-Men films would end up working on an entire new trilogy of series installments.

She has been chronicling affluence for a quarter - century and takes the chance to ruminate on her work and how the wealthy class has changed in the last 25 years, with an emphasis on how people often emulate the rich without actually being able to afford their lifestyle.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

As Charles Murray put it in the Wall Street Journal, «During the past half - century of economic growth, virtually none of the benefits have gone to the working class.»

Part of making sure that students are college and career ready goes beyond rigorous class work and should include interaction with 21st century technology.

After congratulating the nation for working to amass current successes — including financial aid options that have «finally opened the doors of college to all Americans,» state - developed academic standards, the creation of a voluntary national test, technology in the schools, and an emphasis on class - size reduction — Clinton outlined his proposal to drive public education into the 21st century.

For nearly a half - century in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Kennedy was a steadfast champion of the working class and the poor, and a powerful liberal voice on health care, civil rights, and other issues, as well as education.

Examples of activities that integrate ICT to advance 21st - century skills include: analyzing data or information, writing and editing stories or reports, creating multimedia presentations, using and creating simulations or animations, collaborating with peers on learning, and working with others outside of class.

And is the antipathy of hedge fund managers toward organized labor generally in the interests of poor and working class students, whose parents can't make ends meet in part because organized labor has been eviscerated in the United States over the past half century?

One of the most commonly taught stories American schoolchildren learn is that of Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger's 19th - century tale of a poor, ambitious teenaged boy in New York City who works hard and eventually secures himself a respectable, middle - class life.

Originally a companion of rich folks, the dog fell out of favor with the aristocracy around the 19th century but found loving arms in the German working class.

Mid-19th Century Victorian homes with manicured English - style landscaping sit next to rustic, working - class cottages for a stunning collision of lush gardens and diverse cultures.

The Tolpuddle Martyrs» Festival celebrates the story of six nineteenth century agricultural workers from my home county of Dorset, who fought to form a trade union, and the struggle of the working class to defend them.

«The exhibition John Graham: Maverick Modernist at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, Long Island, is a unique opportunity to explore the work of an artist who has hovered on the margins of the Modernist narrative for more than a half - century, when he isn't forgotten altogether... Maverick Modernist takes a deep dive into Graham's background as an artist, a career he began in earnest when, at the age of 35, he enrolled in the class of the Ashcan School painter John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York City.»

Since the band split in the mid-1980s, Simonon has focused on oil on canvas paintings inspired by 20th century realism and its documentation of the living conditions of the working classes, in particular the work of the American Ashcan School in turn of the century New York, and the «Kitchen Sink» school of painters of 1950s post-War Britain.

The catalogue's authors recognize what a remarkable and curious artist he was, yet place him squarely within the Dutch art world of his time, as an artist following in the wake of Flemish landscape painting of the 16th century, and working in a vibrant artistic milieu of admiring colleagues and a burgeoning middle - class market for easel paintings and prints.

Some months ago the Greek food magnate Dimitris Daskalopoulos offered to lend the SNGMA works from his world - class collection of modern art, which begins with Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (aka the urinal) and continues through some of the grand names of the 20th century to Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic and Louise Bourgeois.

In The Times, Rosenberg reduces his work down to the following, «Once you grasp the essential conceit of his art — that his costumes for the 19th - or 18th - century ruling class are made from 20th - century fabrics associated with Africa — the rest is window dressing.»

Our world - class collection of over 30,000 works emphasizes art, architecture, photography, and design from the 19th century to the present.

These objects reveal the exquisite work of artists and craftsmen who served the Spanish ruling class from the 15th to the 18th century.

In these works, the artist dressed headless mannequins in «African» garb in place of Fragonard's courtly 18th - century European figures to suggest the ways in which Africa was implicitly present in a burgeoning leisure class's concepts of love.

And as Communist ideology swept through Southeast Asia in the mid-20th century, Nguyen Duc Nung combined the working - class heroes of Social Realism with lacquer techniques to portray a shining new future.

She represents changes in fashion and social mores, racial and gender issues, class differential, political agendas, feminist advances; in short her work effortlessly reflects a century of change as much as that of any photographer from the same era.

This display presents photographs, news clippings, pamphlets, and books detailing the struggle of the working class in one of the 20th century's most industrialized regions.

Eighteenth century English painter and printmaker William Hogarth used his work to satirize class differences, populating his pictures with caricatures of the flawed modern citizen, while lampooning the systemic inequality that forced them into that position.

In addition, the museum has a first class holding of late - 20th century art, including contemporary works by Christian Boltanski, Joseph Beuys, James Coleman, Olafur Eliasson, Dan Flavin, Andreas Hofer, Jenny Holzer, Stefan Huber, Asger Jorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Anselm Kiefer, Roman Opalka, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol, as well as artists of the Viennese Actionism tendency.

Tate Modern will also present the work of a central figure in twentieth - century Indian painting, Bhupen Khakhar, who combines popular and painterly aesthetics to address issues of class, gender and sexuality with sensitivity and humour.

Typically classed as a «new media» artist, this survey of his work will demonstrate that DuBois operates at the intersections of the visual, the performative, and the time - based mirroring our collective 21st century experience in a world dominated by the hypertext of globalized information.