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The article presents a report from a March 15-18, 2016 conference on transgressions of social class hosted by the Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte e.V. medieval historical society in Constance, Germany. Topics of presentations delivered include the medieval history of class divisions, interclass relationships, and the alleged role of class in control of Switzerland by the Habsburg family.

The central political claim of Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism is that class actors, through the instruments of the democratic process, can modify capitalism. Where working-class mobilization is strong, left parties have sufficient electoral support in the political arena to alter markets politically in ways that decommodify and thereby empower workers. The decline of traditional class voting, however, has profoundly changed this dynamic of welfare politics. We show that the political support coalition for welfare states has been reconfigured through two processes. On the one hand, the Left may have lost support among the traditional working class, but it has substituted this decline by attracting substantial electoral support among specific parts of the expanding middle class. On the other hand, the welfare support coalition has been stabilized through increasing support for the welfare state among right-wing political parties. We discuss the possible consequences of this ‘middle-class shift’ in the welfare support coalition in terms of policy consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recurrent use of violence on the part of plebeian knights during their confrontations, with their peers as well as with other social groups, could be understood both as one of the most complete expressions of their unrest and as one of the favourite strategies to achieve their goals. The question is if these actions and disputes, by themselves, would enable one to elucidate what social class those who held and accomplished them belonged to. The stated answer aims at considering not only the actors performance but also their role in the political mechanisms which structured the social relations of production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the history of clothes rationing in Ireland from 1942 to 1948 during World War II, with a focus on how the restrictions effected the population of Ireland. Topics include the representation of social class through dress and fashion in Ireland; consumer shopping for Irish-manufactured goods in Dublin, Ireland; and espionage reports on the social and cultural life of the Irish by writer Elizabeth Bowen. Humorous cartoons on rationing and women's fashion are also discussed.

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The article discusses the history of the double title of Count Bishop in Northern Central Italy in the 11th to 15th centuries, with reference to the Medieval origins of the phenomenon of Bishops with social ranking such as count, prince, or duke. Topics discussed include the role of the Count Bishop in the social and religious hierarchies, negotiations of the position between the social and religious spheres, and systems of hierarchical classifications of individual and group status in Italian society during this period.