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Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960

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Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the 'working class' in Britain has been maintained through seventy years of radical social, cultural and economic change. She argues that class identity is essentially a social and cultural rather than an institutional or political phenomenon and therefore cannot be understood without constant reference to gender and ethnicity. Each self contained chapter consists of an essay of historical analysis, introducing students to the ways historians use evidence to understand change, as well as useful chronologies, statistics and tables, suggested topics for discussion, and selective further reading.

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ISBN: 9780415098977
Publication date: 9th December 1993
Author: Prof Joanna Bourke, Joanna Bourke
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 288 pages
Genres: European history
History and Archaeology
Social and cultural history