A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900–1945
Author: Rebecca Ball
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 3031550846
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Sober Men and True
Author: Christopher McKee
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780674007369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMcKee scours sailors' diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral interviews to uncover the lives and secret thoughts of British men of the lower deck. From working-class childhoods to the hardships of finding civilian employment after leaving the navy, the former sailors speak with candor about the naval life. Illustrations.
Working Lives
Author: Craig Heron
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2018-11-23
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 1487517548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCraig Heron is one of Canada’s leading labour historians. Drawing together fifteen of Heron’s new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issues, including politics, culture, gender, wage-earning, and union organization. A timely contribution to the evolving field of labour studies in Canada, this cohesive collection of essays analyzes the daily experiences of people working across Canada over more than two hundred years. Honest in its depictions of the historical complexities of daily life, Working Lives raises issues in the writing of Canadian working-class history, especially "working-class realism" and how it is eventually inscribed into Canada’s public history. Thoughtfully reflecting on the ways in which workers interact with the past, Heron discusses the important role historians and museums play in remembering the adversity and milestones experienced by Canada’s working class.
Leisure, Citizenship and Working-class Men in Britain, 1850-1945
Author: Brad Beaven
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780719060274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable crowd of an early twentieth century football match, working-class male leisure proved to be a contentious issue for contemporary observers. For middle-class social reformers from across the political spectrum, the spectacle of popular leisure offered a view of working-class habits, and a means by which lifestyles and behaviour could be assessed. For the mid-Victorians, gingerly stepping into a new mass democratic age, the desire to create a bond between the recently enfranchised male worker and the nation was more important than ever. This trend continued as those in governance perceived that 'good' leisure and citizenship could fend off challenges to social stability such as imperial decline, the mass degenerate city, hooliganism, civic and voter apathy and fascism. Thus, between 1850 and 1945 the issue of male leisure became enmeshed with changing contemporary debates on the encroaching mass society and its implications for good citizenry. Working-class culture has often been depicted as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw from a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both class and gender exclusive. This lively and readable book draws from fascinating accounts from those who participated in and observed contemporary popular leisure making it of importance to students and teachers of social history, popular culture, urban history, historical geography, historical sociology and cultural studies.
Canada 1900-1945
Author: Robert Bothwell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780802068019
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Working-Class Organisations and Popular Tourism, 1840-1970
Author: Susan Barton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2005-05-20
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780719065903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday, many people take the idea of holidays for granted and regard the provision of paid time off as a right. This book argues that popular tourism has its roots in collective organisation and charts the development of the working class holiday over two centuries. This study recounts how short, unpaid and often unauthorised periods of leave from work became organised and legitimised through legislation, culminating with the Holidays with Pay Act of 1938. Moreover, this study finds that it was through collective activity by workers--through savings clubs, friendly societies and union activity--that the working class were originally able to take holidays, and it was as a result of collective bargaining and campaigning that paid holidays were eventually secured for all.
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Author: Jonathan Rose
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 0300148356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhich books did the British working classes read--and how did they read them? How did they respond to canonical authors, penny dreadfuls, classical music, school stories, Shakespeare, Marx, Hollywood movies, imperialist propaganda, the Bible, the BBC, the Bloomsbury Group? What was the quality of their classroom education? How did they educate themselves? What was their level of cultural literacy: how much did they know about politics, science, history, philosophy, poetry, and sexuality? Who were the proletarian intellectuals, and why did they pursue the life of the mind? These intriguing questions, which until recently historians considered unanswerable, are addressed in this book. Using innovative research techniques and a vast range of unexpected sources, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes tracks the rise and decline of the British autodidact from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. It offers a new method for cultural historians--an "audience history" that recovers the responses of readers, students, theatergoers, filmgoers, and radio listeners. Jonathan Rose provides an intellectual history of people who were not expected to think for themselves, told from their perspective. He draws on workers’ memoirs, oral history, social surveys, opinion polls, school records, library registers, and newspapers. Through its novel and challenging approach to literary history, the book gains access to politics, ideology, popular culture, and social relationships across two centuries of British working-class experience.
Plenty and Want
Author: Proffessor John Burnett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1136090843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of English food habits since the industrial revolution answers these questions and more.
Late Victorian Britain 1875-1901
Author: J.F.C. Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1136116443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing heavily on the recollections and literature of the people themselves, Harrison places late Victorian Britain firmly in its social and political context.
Reproducing Families
Author: David Levine
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1987-08-27
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521337854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA review of the course of English population history from 1066 to the 1980s, with a particular focus on English family forms.
