through europe - poverty http://th-rough.eu/taxonomy/term/120/0 en L'Inghilterra fa 36 http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-ita/linghilterra-fa-36 <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> L&rsquo;Inghilterra &egrave; sempre stato un paese particolarmente abile nel reinventarsi. Era la terra che aveva schiavizzato mezzo mondo col suo colonialismo, poi &egrave; diventata quella che lo ha salvato dal Nazismo. Era il paese in cui alla fine del 1945 gli sfollati avevano dato vita alle occupazioni di case pi&ugrave; massicce nella storia europea, poi &egrave; diventato l&rsquo;incubo yuppy degli anni della Thatcher. Era la Cool Britannia del New Labour, poi &egrave; diventata &lsquo;la cosa&rsquo; scontenta e sanguinante dell&rsquo;attuale governo conservatore. Ma a ben guardare, sotto tutti questi capovolgimenti e cambi di maschera, qual&rsquo;&egrave; la verit&agrave; sull&rsquo;Inghilterra?</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-ita/linghilterra-fa-36" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-ita gini coefficient inequality poverty UK wealth English Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:18:14 +0000 Federico Campagna 127 at http://th-rough.eu Tales from the Flexitariat: the Sadness of the Scientific Lamp Maker http://th-rough.eu/writers/da-rimini-eng/tales-flexitariat-sadness-scientific-lamp-maker <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> I&#39;ve seen him before. An older man, from another space-time when work and the rest of life remained distinctly separate, even for those for whom poverty forced to labour long and broken hours.</p> <p class="rtejustify"> I come from these lines, the labouring masses. My people, on the whole, were working people. Cooks, waiters, clerks, typists, and a dancing girl, my English great-grandmother. Was this code for a prostitute I wondered, but my Pommie brother who&#39;s delved deep into working class culture tells me it could simply mean that she was a dancing girl.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/da-rimini-eng/tales-flexitariat-sadness-scientific-lamp-maker" target="_blank">read more</a></p> da-rimini-eng autobiography family Italy labour migration poverty UK work English Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:03:51 +0000 Francesca da Rimini 113 at http://th-rough.eu