This article analyses aesthetical–political strategies for the promotion of class consciousness among workers in a few examples contemporary Swedish working-class literature from different genres that describe and criticize precarious working conditions. Special attention is given to how these texts engage dialogue with notion precariat authors’ use decidedly literary forms. One important resul...

This study aims to contribute to the contemporary debates about the formation of class-based consciousness in Turkey with special reference to coal miners in Zonguldak and textile workers in Bursa. We will try to analyze class-based consciousness and forms of solidarity mainly in relation to Mann’s formulations of ‘class identity’, ‘class opposition’, ‘class totality’ and ‘conception of an alte...

We present a method of improving the performance of dialog act tagging in identifying minority classes by using per-class feature optimization and a method of choosing the class based not on confidence, but on a cascade of classifiers. We show that it gives a minority class F-measure error reduction of 22.8%, while also reducing the error for other classes and the overall error by about 10%.