ISBN:
9781847793607
,
1847793606
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 258 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Studies in popular culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945
DDC:
305.38962094109034
Keywords:
Men Social life and customs
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19th century
;
Great Britain
;
Men Social life and customs
;
20th century
;
Great Britain
;
Working class Social life and customs
;
19th century
;
Great Britain
;
Working class Social life and customs
;
20th century
;
Great Britain
;
Leisure Social aspects
;
History
;
19th century
;
Great Britain
;
Leisure Social aspects
;
History
;
20th century
;
Great Britain
;
Great Britain
;
Men Social life and customs 20th century
;
Working class Social life and customs 19th century
;
Working class Social life and customs 20th century
;
Leisure Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Leisure Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Men Social life and customs 19th century
;
Working class Social life and customs 20th century
;
Leisure Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Leisure Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Working class Social life and customs 19th century
;
Men Social life and customs 20th century
;
Men Social life and customs 19th century
;
HISTORY ; Europe ; Great Britain
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Leisure ; Social aspects
;
Men ; Social life and customs
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Working class ; Social life and customs
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies
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History
;
Great Britain
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Rational recreation and the creation of the model citizen, c. 1850-1914 -- The era of mass leisure : the pleasure-seeking citizen -- Fearing for the empire : male youth, work and leisure, 1870-1914 -- Male leisure in the industrial suburb : 1918-39 : the rise of "suburban neurosis"? -- Male youth, work and leisure, 1918-39 : a continuity in lifestyle -- The era of mass communication : working-class male leisure and "good" citizenship between the wars -- Male leisure and citizenship in the Second World War.
Abstract:
Working-class culture has often been depicted by historians as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw on a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both cl
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index
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