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 == Use of the term working-class to describe Mods == 

 I've used the term ""working-class"" to describe the main followers of the Mod scene in the 60s in the UK. The Wikipedia article on Mods has a small dispute about whether the mod scene was an outgrowth of the middle-class beatnik scene, a east-end Jewish phenomena, etc. I think it may have been all - in the UK scenes tend to emerge because there's been a breaking down of cultural and class barriers. Its no coincidence that the Mod scene coincided with the mass arrival of West Indians, the first boom after two decades of post-war austerity, the first strains against the older class system through the media influence of America and other countries, etc. However it was still a scene that drew the working-class young to its flag of ""modernism"" albeit with a generous contingent of middle-class participants as well. 

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