Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s
Autor Gary Crossen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 oct 1990
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415040716
ISBN-10: 041504071X
Pagini: 252
Ilustrații: 47 tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 041504071X
Pagini: 252
Ilustrații: 47 tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
` ... helps to recreate for us something of the feel of a vital component of mass-popular culture and as such should be warmly welcomed.' - Social History Society
`It's a fascinating social document topped and tailed by informative modern appreciations of Mass-Observations methods.' - North West Labour History
`It's a fascinating social document topped and tailed by informative modern appreciations of Mass-Observations methods.' - North West Labour History
Cuprins
Part 1; Chapter 1 WORK; Chapter 2 THE ORDER OF TIME; Chapter 3 THE HOLIDAY DREAM; Part 2; Chapter 4 THE HOLIDAY EXODUS; Chapter 5, THE ESSENTIALS OF HOLIDAY LIFE; Chapter 6 WITCH DOCTOR; Part 3; Chapter 7 AROUND THE TOWER AND OUT TO THE SEA; Chapter 8, THE PEOPLE'S PLAYGROUND; Chapter 9 FOURTH DIMENSION; Chapter 10 PENNIES FROM HEAVEN AND FROM EARTH; Chapter 11 THEATRES AND CINEMA; Chapter 12 THE FRINGE OF OUR LAW; Part 4; Chapter 13 DAY ROUTINE; Chapter 14 CHILDREN; Chapter 15 THE MOB; Chapter 16 DANCING; Chapter 17 SEX; Chapter 18 INTERSEX AND THE MORAL LAW; Part 5; Chapter 19, BLACKPOOL PEOPLE; Chapter 20 LIGHTS IN AUTUMN; Chapter 21 RELICS FROM HOLY BLACKPOOL AFTERWORD: MASS-OBSERVATION'S BLACKPOOL AND SOME ALTERNATIVES, John K. Walton; Index;
Descriere
Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.