http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2007/07/07/learning-sharing-from-sheffield/ Linking up Birmingham's Artistic and Creative Communities Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:55:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2007/07/07/learning-sharing-from-sheffield/comment-page-1/#comment-368 D'log Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:39:28 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=429#comment-368 One might even suspect that this attitude is due to the long history of the make-up and re-invention of the city's class of "movers and shakers". It's as if the individualist free-market "give it a go" streak from the Victorian and Edwardian "city of a thousand trades", became strained through (and soured by) the later experiments in municipal socialism, in the context of a fast-eroding industrial base. Competiveness fed into a "divide and rule" clientist squabble, grabbing for crumbs from the municipal pot. Just a thought. One might even suspect that this attitude is due to the long history of the make-up and re-invention of the city’s class of “movers and shakers”. It’s as if the individualist free-market “give it a go” streak from the Victorian and Edwardian “city of a thousand trades”, became strained through (and soured by) the later experiments in municipal socialism, in the context of a fast-eroding industrial base. Competiveness fed into a “divide and rule” clientist squabble, grabbing for crumbs from the municipal pot. Just a thought.

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