This part begins with Stuart’s retrospective assessment of the profound role played by Richard Hoggart’s work (and in particular The Uses of Literacy , which appeared in 1957) in opening up the terrain of Cultural Studies and laying the ground for much of what followed. By the time the article was written in 2007 there was much talk of the “cultural turn” in the social sciences, noted earlier. However, little of that was as generous as Stuart is here in recognizing the crucial role played by the early work of Hoggart and Raymond Williams in enabling this development. In acknowledging what Cultural Studies learned from and owed to their work, not least methodologically, Stuart begins, as so often, by locating its emergence within a particular conjuncture. His periodization sets the roots of Cultural Studies in Britain in the wider frame of the post–World War II emergence of relatively affluent social democracies in Europe. Thus, the emergence of Cultural Studies in Britain also marks the moment when the idea of a consumer-driven “affluent society” emerged, to use the phrase popularized by J. K. Galbraith in the US and later taken up by the sociologists John Goldthorpe and David Lockwood in their influential study of the new figure of the “affluent worker” in Britain, who was thought by some to herald the arrival of a (relatively) classless society. 1