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

ISBN-13: 9780415040716 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 252 str.

Gary Cross;Cross Gary; Gary Cross

Opis

In 1937, the Mass-Observation organization was founded to record the everyday life of ordinary people for a popular audience. The mass-observers followed labourers, from the routine of work and home life in the Lancashire town of Bolton, to Blackpool. They recorded what they saw, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this crowded temple of Victorian culture and also to transcend class prejudice and sociological theory. The annual pilgrimage to Blackpool was at the centre of the annual cycle of renewal and release in working-class life.

Recenzje

` ... 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

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Gary Cross