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Through common every-day experiences, many of the worker-writers felt a sense of connection to something bigger than themselves. For example, the occupation of writing and membership in the FWWCP, the organization through which they published their autobiographies, were a means of challenging the injustice within the status quo and attempting to serve a greater good. The FWWCP saw itself as a non-party based, independent, radical movement, to some extent at odds with dominant cultural perspectives, including those of other British left wing groups of the time (Morley & Worpole, 2009). The occupation of writing and membership to the FWWCP were a means of connecting personal life experiences to a larger cause. Worker-writing and the activities of the FWWCP consciously represented ordinary peoples’ experiences as alternative discourses to a mainstream set of narratives which excluded it or tended to ridicule it as mundane and banal.