Post by John Green on Dec 10, 2022 16:05:20 GMT
"The proportion of working-class actors, musicians and writers has shrunk by half since the 1970s, new research shows.
Analysis of Office for National Statistics data found that 16.4% of creative workers born between 1953 and 1962 had a working-class background, but that had fallen to just 7.9% for those born four decades later.
This reflected a similar decline in the number of people with working-class origins, according to the paper in the journal Sociology by researchers from the universities of Edinburgh, Manchester and Sheffield. People whose parents had a working-class job accounted for about 37% of the workforce in 1981, but by 2011 that had fallen to about 21%." www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/10/huge-decline-working-class-people-arts-reflects-society
"reflects a similar decline", maybe, but there's still that glaring gap between the percentage in society as a whole, 21%, and the percentage in the arts-7.9.
Class isn't cool anymore. You aren't going to have actors and actresses trying to get a working-class friend. In fact, the last decade has actually seen open contempt for proles-Neanderthal thugs to a man and a woman-for the first time since the 1930s. It seems a shame.
Analysis of Office for National Statistics data found that 16.4% of creative workers born between 1953 and 1962 had a working-class background, but that had fallen to just 7.9% for those born four decades later.
This reflected a similar decline in the number of people with working-class origins, according to the paper in the journal Sociology by researchers from the universities of Edinburgh, Manchester and Sheffield. People whose parents had a working-class job accounted for about 37% of the workforce in 1981, but by 2011 that had fallen to about 21%." www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/10/huge-decline-working-class-people-arts-reflects-society
"reflects a similar decline", maybe, but there's still that glaring gap between the percentage in society as a whole, 21%, and the percentage in the arts-7.9.
Class isn't cool anymore. You aren't going to have actors and actresses trying to get a working-class friend. In fact, the last decade has actually seen open contempt for proles-Neanderthal thugs to a man and a woman-for the first time since the 1930s. It seems a shame.
