Another event in the ICA's season dedicated to talking about the working class. Experts in 
ventriloquising then declaring dead then re-ventriloquising from beyond the grave such as
(old time stalinist, post-fordist ideologue, and latter day folk-demonizer) Beatrix Campbell, 
and the literary editor of the TLS come together to solicit what they formerly exorcised.
Now that social cohesion has replaced the fetish of flexibility, there's a whole new career in
fearmongering and strategies for 'social inclusion'... 

What happened to the working class?

Where are the working classes, and how might they be re-engaged in 
political debate?

Caught between theranks of the underclass and the anxious middle 
classes, the working class has all but been erased as a category for 
political debate. After the disappearance of a politics based on class, 
is it useful to use the language of class? What have the working classes 
been up to while politics has forgotten them, and how might they be 
re-engaged in political debate?
Speakers: Ferdinand Mount, former editor of the Times Literary 
Supplement and author of /Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in 
Britain/; Beatrix Campbell, writer, broadcaster and author of /Goliath: 
Britain’s Dangerous Places/; Alan Hudson, Fellow of Kellogg College, 
Oxford and co-author of /The Mood of the Nation: Basildon Man 
Revisited/. Participating Chair: Avner Offer, Chichele Professor of 
Economic History, All Souls College and author of /The Challenge of 
Affluence/.

Wed 15 Mar         19:00 Nash Room

*Full Price : *£8.
*Concession : *£7.
*ICA Members : *£6.