Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

Title: Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class Author: Cruz, Cynthia ISBN: 9781912248919 Publisher: Repeater Published: 2021 Binding: Quality Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Non-Fiction 1285550 Publisher Description: What does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Cynthia Cruz shows us how class affects culture and our mental health and what we can do about it -- calling not for assimilation, but for annihilation. To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost. Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist. We are left with a choice between assimilation into middle-class values and culture, leaving our working-class origins behind, or total annihilation. In The Melancholia of Class, Cynthia Cruz analyses how this choice between assimilation or annihilation has played out in the lives of working-class mu