Synopsis
Working-Class Community in Northern Ireland by Peter McNamee and Tom Lovett, contains a collection of interviews held with ordinary people throughout Northern Ireland over a ten-year period, offering them a platform and providing them with a rare opportunity to speak out about the social, cultural, economic and political issues which they feel affect them the most as they go about their daily lives - unemployment and poverty, housing and redevelopment, 'consultation' at planning level, health, education, work, vandalism, domestic violence, the role of the Churches, family pressures, and the Troubles are all put under the spotlight. The first two parts explore working-class communities in terms of formerly accepted values and attitudes, a unifying factor between Orange and Green, which for so many of the informants have now fallen into abeyance, only to be superseded by a coming to grips with the social and cultural dislocation wrought by massive unemployment and poverty, and the twin-engined dilemma of insufficient social facilities giving rise to want and neglect. Part Three is totally devoted to the issues women feel to be the most important; Part Four lets young people have their say. Finally, the last part looks at Prods and Taigs - a divided working class.
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