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Fictional literature portraying the descent of the United States into dictatorship is assessed critically and divided into three cultural-historical phases, each specific in class modality. Ignatius Donnelly's Caesar's Column (1890) and Jack London's The Iron Heel (1907) project a plutocracy violently imposed to forestall working-class revolution. Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here (1935) and other mid-century novels envision a demagogic American authoritarianism, with working-class and lower-middle-class grievances exploited to amass personal power. In the Cold War and neoliberal eras, class recedes from salience in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America (2004). Despite Atwood's brilliant evocation of totalitarian patriarchy and the extraordinary interiority of Sherwood Anderson's Marching Men (1917), the novels of American authoritarianism are on the whole characterized by aesthetic implausibility, one-sided apprehension of authoritarianism's class dynamics, and failure to treat white supremacy as central.

In the Great Depression, numerous American writers and intellectuals were attracted to the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). This chapter provides an institutional analysis of that political-literary experience, arguing that it is best understood through a prism of structure.

This one-day symposium was organised by Dolores Phelps to examine the ethical and moral motives and social philosophy behind illustrators' and cartoonists' practice, towards developing a social conscience within a commercial practice. Held on: Wednesday 14 November 2018, at the Main Gallery, Museum in the Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK. Chaired/led by Dolores Phelps, MPhil/PhD Researcher, Illustration. The activist and writer Myshele Haywood-Goldberg, in her definition of "Social Conscience" for the University of Strathclyde and the Centre for Human Ecology, describes a framework whereby the triad of consciousness, structure, and agency interrelate to create a strong (or weak) social conscience. The speakers were asked to examine, investigate and discuss their own moral motivations and questions that have arisen during their development as illustration practitioners and historians. The topics were proposed to cover various responses to ethical and moral questions: · Satirical responses: political cartoons and popular illustration of 19th, 20th and 21st centuries · Raising awareness: Speakers will reflect on the meaning and relevance of having a social conscience in art and design, · Personal experience: Reflection on long careers in Illustration and drawing and how issues such as female identity, social pressures or political views have created opportunities, challenges or obstacles within the constraints of commercial and real-life Illustration practice. · The notion of 'praxis' and what it means when ideals or principles are integrated successfully into practice with intention and purpose. · Historical perspective: An overview of the role of satire and how it reflects dissent and opposition to regimes which may be perceived to be unfair or oppressive (conversely, how satire can also repress progressive movements eg. Women's Suffrage). Speakers: Prof Brian Maidment, Liverpool John Moores University Andrzej Krauze, Political Cartoonist Karrie Fransman, Graphic novelist and comics artist. Additional short overview by Illustration researcher Dolores Phelps of staff research interests in the Illustration department of the University of Gloucestershire.

This article presents examples from England of the participation of children with caring responsibilities (young carers) in policy and practice at both local and national levels. The 'voices' of young carers themselves have become more prominent at many levels and in diverse contexts such as through local young carers' fora and through dialogue with decision makers, including social care commissioners and Members of Parliament. This participation has for a number of years in England,been strongly advocated for and facilitated by voluntary sector services in particular. Drawing on a number of practice examples, the article will highlight a range of young carers' participatory activity and the extent to which this is woven into policy development and practice. It will consider the processes and protocols of recruitment and safeguarding and the outcomes of young carers' participation, including the influence of their 'voices' in bringing about real change and the impacts on themselves as individuals. Consideration will be given as to whether the voices of young carers has been truly representative of children and young people with caring responsibilities and where particular attention may need to be focused when listening to their voices. The potential risks of young carers' participation at a practical level will be explored as well as the barriers to participation for young carers and approaches for enhancing their participation.

This article presents examples from England of the participation of children with caring responsibilities (young carers) in policy and practice at both local and national levels. The 'voices' of young carers themselves have become more prominent at many levels and in diverse contexts such as through local young carers' fora and through dialogue with decision makers, including social care commissioners and Members of Parliament. This participation has for a number of years in England, been strongly advocated for and facilitated by voluntary sector services in particular. Drawing on a number of practice examples, the article will highlight a range of young carers' participatory activity and the extent to which this is woven into policy development and practice. It will consider the processes and protocols of recruitment and safeguarding and the outcomes of young carers' participation, including the influence of their 'voices' in bringing about real change and the impacts on themselves as individuals. Consideration will be given as to whether the voices of young carers has been truly representative of children and young people with caring responsibilities and where particular attention may need to be focused when listening to their voices. The potential risks of young carers' participation at a practical level will be explored as well as the barriers to participation for young carers and approaches for enhancing their participation.

This article presents examples from England of the participation of children with caring responsibilities (young carers) in policy and practice at both local and national levels. The 'voices' of young carers themselves have become more prominent at many levels and in diverse contexts such as through local young carers' fora and through dialogue with decision makers, including social care commissioners and Members of Parliament. This participation has for a number of years in England,been strongly advocated for and facilitated by voluntary sector services in particular. Drawing on a number of practice examples, the article will highlight a range of young carers' participatory activity and the extent to which this is woven into policy development and practice. It will consider the processes and protocols of recruitment and safeguarding and the outcomes of young carers' participation, including the influence of their 'voices' in bringing about real change and the impacts on themselves as individuals. Consideration will be given as to whether the voices of young carers has been truly representative of children and young people with caring responsibilities and where particular attention may need to be focused when listening to their voices. The potential risks of young carers' participation at a practical level will be explored as well as the barriers to participation for young carers and approaches for enhancing their participation.

Between the First and Second World Wars, Heywood Broun (1888-1939) and Benjamin Stolberg (1891-1951) were labor journalists when the newspaper industry was consolidating into chains and industrial unionism was gaining in American society. A comparison of their lives and writings in the 1920s and 1930s illuminates the politics behind news coverage of labor. Suspicious of the Communist Party, Stolberg ultimately clashed with Broun, the quintessential Popular Front left-liberal, over the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The two were similar, however, in framing labor positively, unlike much of the rest of the press, while eschewing any journalistic ethos of "impartiality."

This article presents examples from England of the participation of children with caring responsibilities (young carers) in policy and practice at both local and national levels. The "voices" of young carers themselves have become more prominent at many levels and in diverse contexts such as through local young carers' fora and through dialogue with decision makers, including social care commissioners and Members of Parliament. This participation has for a number of years in England, been strongly advocated for and facilitated by voluntary sector services in particular. Drawing on a number of practice examples, the article will highlight a range of young carers' participatory activity and the extent to which this is woven into policy development and practice. It will consider the processes and protocols of recruitment and safeguarding and the outcomes of young carers' participation, including the influence of their "voices" in bringing about real change and the impacts on themselves as individuals. Consideration will be given as to whether the voices of young carers has been truly representative of children and young people with caring responsibilities and where particular attention may need to be focused when listening to their voices. The potential risks of young carers' participation at a practical level will be explored as well as the barriers to participation for young carers and approaches for enhancing their participation.