You snipped one of my guesses, Christopher. The following was my bow to
"caritas":
Pre-Unloving the former "middle class"?
You've not given me too much information. In fact, I need much more in
order to get my head around the politics of Catholics and Protestants in
Elizabethan England (for a play I'm writing)---most particularly as it
advanced, retarded or snuffed the lives of poets and composers. QE 1,
unlike her father and stepsister, had a fairly politically-pragmatic
tolerance for Catholics---up to a point. I find m'sel' amazed, sad, and
impressed at the byzantine mazes these artists had to navigate. And they
were, in many cases, the most fortunate of folks. The composer-musicians,
for example, often found it relatively (to non-artists) easy to flee to
Italy or other "Catholic" countries for their safety or freer practice of
their art. That also led, tho, to their being used by Principal Secretary
to the Queen, Sir Francis Walsingham, as spies whilst they were in other
countries.
More than you wanted to know, no doubt.
Best,
Judy
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From: "Christopher Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Working Class v Middle Class (was Re: New beats (???))
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wot in the world is "precaritization"?! Before tooth decay? [Judy P]
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A small note on 'precaritization'.
Theoretically *precarity* (a situation that is socio-economically
precarious) is a coinage of the US Catholic Left during the 50s. Hence
'precaritization': being put in that situation. In practice I am doubtful.
*Precarity* (precariedad, precarietà, précarité) has spread through Spain,
Italy, France etc) as a fairly recent term of art for the condition of
*flexible exploitation*: the Pope used it, a month or two ago, and there's a
Saint Precario (not recognised by the Pope) with February 29 as his special
Day. However, a bit like 'recuperation', the term is much more natural in
Europe than it has ever been in English: also in the 50s Danilo Dolci uses
precarietà to describe the situation of many Sicilian workers, for example.
Which may be more than you wanted to know!
CW
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'Does God want you to be unemployed?'
(Question posed by Danilo Dolci to precarious workers in
Palermo as part of his *Inchiesta a Palermo*, 1957)
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