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

Worktowners at Blackpool

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

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Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780415755375
ISBN10 0415755379
Number Of Pages 252
Item Weight 362 g
Publisher / Reseller Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format paperback
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` ... 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

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