Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class and Ethnicity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415098984)

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.

Author: Joanna Bourke
ISBN-10: 041509898X
ISBN-13: 9780415098984
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/09/1993
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.42w x 0.94d