Ben Jones

The working class in mid-twentieth-century England (eBook, PDF)

Community, identity and social memory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book maps how working class life was transformed in England in the middle years of the twentieth century. National trends in employment, welfare and living standards are illuminated via a focus on Brighton, providing valuable new perspectives of class and community formation. Based on fresh archival research, life histories and contemporary social surveys, the book historicises important cultural and community studies which moulded popular perceptions of class and social change in the post-war period. It shows how council housing, slum clearance and demographic trends impacted on working-class families and communities. While suburbanisation transformed home life, leisure and patterns of association, there were important continuities in terms of material poverty, social networks and cultural practices. This book will be essential reading for academics and students researching modern and contemporary social and cultural history, sociology, cultural studies and human geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526130303
• Artikelnr.: 54536567

Autorenporträt

Ben Jones is the Co-Founder and CEO of Data Literacy, LLC, a company that's on a mission to help people speak the language of data. He's also the author of Data Literacy Fundamentals, Learning to See Data, and Read, Write, Think Data. Ben teaches data visualization at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Class: jobs
families
mobilities and social identities 3. Place: The social geography of working class housing 4. Community: Neighbours
networks and social memory 5. Home: family
memory and modernity 6. Conclusion Biographical appendix Bibliography Index