{"product_id":"the-working-class-in-mid-twentiethcentury-england-community-identity-and-social-memory-9780719084737","title":"The Working Class in Mid TwentiethCentury England","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcademics and students researching modern and contemporary social and cultural history, sociology, cultural studies and human geography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e...illuminating and thoughtful\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, in consequence, is a work of genuine scholarship, its author's credentials rooted in a readiness to ask the right questions of his cross-generation sample, and an assiduous approach to uncovering civic, community, and counter-culture archives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Smith, University of Southampton, Southern History 35 (2013).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBold and provocative … an impressive argument …In developing his view of the working-class experience, Jones also judicially evaluates his findings against seminal and current historiography on working-class culture, a dimension of the book that makes it a relevant and attractive read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrad Beavan, American Historical Review, 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJones presents an impressive example of how, shorn of determinist assumptions, class analysis continues to provide a valuable tool for historians. The author combines an understanding of the material circumstances of men and women’s lives and how they experienced them with an immersion in the narratives and discourses through which these subjects constructed their identities. The result is a convincing argument that class remained central to the lives of English men and women in the middle decades of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew August, Journal of British Studies, 2013.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDelineates a delicate balance between continuity and change in working-class life in older neighbourhoods and new suburban council estates, and across the whole mid-twentieth century period … The book’s most significant accomplishment is integrating discussion of material change with discursive shifts. In the aftermath of sometimes agonized debates associated with the ‘linguistic turn’, this is an important achievement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlorence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Twentieth Century British History, 2013.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rich account of the experiences of a working class community … the depth with which the author engages with the topic is impressive and it reveals many different layers of understanding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Manley, Planning Perspectives, 2013.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDilligently researched and well written … a convincing thesis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJim Phillips, Economic History Review, 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction\t\t        \u003cbr\u003e2. Class: jobs, families, mobilities and social identities\t\u003cbr\u003e3. Place: The social geography of working class housing\t\t\t\t      \u003cbr\u003e4. Community: Neighbours, networks and social memory\t\t\t      \u003cbr\u003e5. Home: family, memory and modernity\t\t\t\t\t \t      \u003cbr\u003e6. Conclusion\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cbr\u003eBiographical appendix \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t      \u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037331587415,"sku":"9780719084737","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719084737.jpg?v=1750935328","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-working-class-in-mid-twentiethcentury-england-community-identity-and-social-memory-9780719084737","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}