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THE LANCASHIRE WORKING CLASSES C.1880-1930
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| By: |
Trevor Griffiths |
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Hardback |
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£62.00 |
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£62.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199247382 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199247387 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
4 October, 2001 |
| Series: |
Oxford Historical Monographs |
| Pages: |
402 |
| Description: |
This book explores the formation of working-class identities in the period 1880-1930, as reflected in changes in work and industrial relations, family life, patterns of saving, and changing political allegiances. Trevor Griffiths challenges the notion that the period witnessed the emergence of a more united sense of class among British workers. Instead, the picture emerges of a working class for whom the ties of work and neighbourhood counted for less than those ofreligion and nationality. |
| Synopsis: |
This book examines the experiences and values which shaped working-class life in Britain in the half-century from 1880. It takes as its focus a region, Lancashire, which was central to the social and political changes of the period. The discussion centres on two towns, Bolton and Wigan, which, while they were geographically close, differed significantly in their industrial fortunes and their electoral development. The formation of class identity is traced through developments in the world of work, from the impact of technological and managerial innovations to the elaboration of collective-bargaining procedures. Beyond work, particular attention is paid to the dynamics of neighbourhood and family life, the latter emerging as an important source of continuity in working-class life. The broader impact of such influences are traced through a close examination of the electoral politics of the period. Dr Griffiths' conclusions fundamentally challenge the notion that the fifty years around the turn of the century witnessed the emergence of a working class more culturally and politically united than at any other time, either before or since.Rather, an alternative narrative of class development is offered, in which broad continuities in working-class life, in particular the survival of religious, ethnic, and occupational points of division, are emphasised. Despite the presence of strong and stable labour institutions, from trade unions to Co-operative and Friendly Societies, the picture emerges of a working class more individualist than collectivist in outlook, more flexible in response to economic change, and less constrained by the broader solidarities of work and neighbourhood than has previously been supposed. |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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