Kensington was once home to one of Victoria's major abbatoirs and livestock saleyards, as well as an army ordnance depot and has a strong working-class history.
Paul Maunder, who lives in the town, is a playwright who has written and staged a number of plays about the town and working-class history.
In political terms he was a radical, on the left of his party, with a strong sense of Labour's part in British working-class history.
The Jordaanlied usually treats the past nostalgically; this past is a working-class history, the Jordaan having been deeply impoverished since the middle of the 19th century.
Encyclopedia of U.S. labor and working-class history, Volume 1 (2007).
Finally, LAWCHA occasionally gives a prize for "distinguished service to labor and working-class history."
Currently, she teaches courses in 20th-century America, material and popular culture, and gender, urban, and working-class history.
The Rocks has a strong working-class, maritime history, which was preserved through the initiative of a number of unions, the first time such an action had been taken.
Its examination of working-class social history is introduced with a videotape narrated by the actress Glenda Jackson, now a Labor Member of Parliament.
He co-founded the journal, Past and Present in 1952, and pioneered the study of working-class history.