The Changing Class Composition of Big Cities: Professionalization, Proletarianisation or Polarisation
This talk will examine the changing social class composition of major western cities over the last 150 years, focusing particularly on the last 50 years.
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Chris Hamnett, Geography, King's College London
Coach House, Green College, UBC
Wednesday, November 16, 5-6:30 pmin the series
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time -
This talk will examine the changing social class composition of major western cities over the last 150 years, focusing particularly on the last 50 years. The changing social composition of cities has been a major social and political question since at least the mid-19th century. It was at this time that the advent of large scale industrialization and migration began to create a large new unskilled urban working class. Social commentators and politicians, from Booth to Mayhew to Engels, pointed to the social impacts on cities. Subsequently, the advent of Fordism in the early decades of the 20th century led to creation of a large industrial working class and another round of social changes. Most recently, deindustrialization, the growth of a post-industrial society, and the knowledge economy has led to what some see as the hollowing out of the class structure. This talk will consider the impact of these changes, which have been most intense in big cities, and the major intellectual debates over what is happening today, with evidence and examples from New York, London, Paris, Vancouver and other cities.
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Unless otherwise noted, all of our lectures are free to attend and do not require registration.
When
November 16th, 2016 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Location
Coach House
6201 Cecil Green Park Rd
Green College, UBC
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada
6201 Cecil Green Park Rd
Green College, UBC
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada
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