<p> The patterns of working class settlement for New York City were established using occupation statistics found within the 1940 census. The health areas of the city's boroughs were shaded based on location quotients. Location quotients were calculated for craftsmen, operatives and labourers individually and then as a group, defining the term "total working class". The urban structure of New York City, presented in the four maps of working class settlement, failed to show the existence of five distinct concentric areas which Burgess identified in Chicago in 1925. The complicated topography, peripheral location of manufacturing industries, and lack of evenly dispersed transportation modes and bridges have contributed to the unique arrangement of settlement in New York City. </p> / Thesis / Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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These stories examine the lives of working class people in light of the current economic and social climate. They address and attempt to empathize with the despair and disillusionment many working class Americans express in response to their economic and social realities, and the stories attempt to walk a non-judgmental line regarding the attitudes these characters espouse. Instead of judging the characters or championing a particular moral stance, the pieces attempt to present individuals faced with major failures: child abandonment, guilt over preventable death, overriding selfishness, racism, and shame regarding social status. These failures of character or morality echo the larger failings, as the characters perceive them, of their time and place. Within this worldview of disillusionment and despair, many of the characters in these stories choose to struggle toward self-betterment—not economic or social betterment per se, but individual betterment, a reckoning with themselves and their failures that necessarily reflects and interacts with the world they inhabit. These are stories rooted in the Midwest and its rust-belt inhabitants, but for all their contemporary socio-economic concerns, the stories are first and foremost concerned with the individual and representing each individual portrayed accurately and honestly. / Master of Fine Arts

yes / Studies of graduate destinations generally report positive outcomes for working-class graduates, particularly professionally validated programmes such as pharmacy or social work, which offer specific career pathways. However, I know of working-class graduates with good degrees from good institutions who are in relatively menial positions in the leisure and retail sector. It is as if such students are unable to move beyond working-class jobs and embrace the middle-class careers that a degree should unlock. / This section of the article 'Can I succeed as a working-class academic?' is reproduced here in line with the publisher's copyright restrictions.