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Worktowners at Blackpool Gary Cross

Worktowners at Blackpool By Gary Cross

Worktowners at Blackpool by Gary Cross

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Summary

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.

Worktowners at Blackpool Summary

Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s by Gary Cross

Previous publications include Worktime and Industrialisation; An International History (1988), A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940 (1989), A Social History of Leisure Since 1600 (1990)

Should get wide media coverage - reviews, features, etc

Mass-Observation archives contain the findings of over 60 researchers from the 1930s

Worktowners at Blackpool Reviews

` ... 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

About Gary Cross

Gary Cross

Table of Contents

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;

Additional information

NPB9780415040716
9780415040716
041504071X
Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s by Gary Cross
Gary Cross
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1990-10-04
252
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