Comments on: A short, personal history of class and gender inequality in the NHS (part 1) http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2009/11/21/a-short-personal-history-of-class-and-gender-inequality-in-the-nhs-part-1/ "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down" - Aneurin Bevan, 1953 Mon, 28 May 2012 18:49:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gender vs. Class: the case of nursing (Introduction) « Though Cowards Flinch http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2009/11/21/a-short-personal-history-of-class-and-gender-inequality-in-the-nhs-part-1/#comment-3659 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:47:01 +0000 http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/?p=1541#comment-3659 [...] post, and the posts that will follow at some point, started life in my mind as a companion piece to my personal story about class difference in the NHS 1980s, which was kindly edited by Don Paskini for publication at Liberal Conspiracy and attracted a good [...]

]]> By: Paul http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2009/11/21/a-short-personal-history-of-class-and-gender-inequality-in-the-nhs-part-1/#comment-3622 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:06:43 +0000 http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/?p=1541#comment-3622 Sorry, bit too elliptic for me. I know who Cornet Joyce was, but don’t know how it links. Not familiar with police incident.

]]> By: Dave Semple http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2009/11/21/a-short-personal-history-of-class-and-gender-inequality-in-the-nhs-part-1/#comment-3620 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:53:08 +0000 http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/?p=1541#comment-3620 A really intriguing analysis of the situation. Though the analogy will seem weak, I got the exact same ‘feel’ from reading this article as reading of other instances more traditionally associated with the overthrow of heirarchy; Cornet Joyce arresting King Charles; the policeman waiting until the Petrograd Soviet ‘recognized’ him before he and his compadres arrested them all in 1905.

I wonder whether or not something similar can or should be said about the dynamics between teachers and teaching assistants, given the way teachers jealously guard their privileges of teaching classes.

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