Working Class Associational Life in the Working Class

When was the last time you went past a working man's club? They're pretty sad, forlorn and largely empty places these days. The reason that you have this atrophying of working class civil society has a lot to do with the paling schools as well as with the associated social problems of welfare dependency. And i'm not sected. I'm not suggesting we get rid of them, but i am suggesting thathy're much too powerful in public educati order order, order orde they sa down solt.