Description
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of Britain’s many work camp systems.
Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating, well-written and thoughtful study.
‘Working Men's Bodies: Work Camps in Britain, 1880-1940 is an exhaustive exploration of the role of work camps and camp movements in modern British history…The sheer scope of John Field’s analysis is impressive…It is an important contribution to shared understandings of how bodies are shaped and managed through public discourse and policy interventions. Working Men’s Bodies will therefore also appeal to readers interested in sociology, labor policy, and the gendered nature of work.’
Abbas, Carleton University, H-Disability July 2016
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Table of Contents1. Colonising the land
2. ‘We work amongst the lowest stratum of life’: the early labour colonies
3. Labour colonies and public health
4. Alternative living in the English countryside: utopian colonies
5. ‘The landless man to the manless land’: labour colonies and the Empire
6. ‘Save our young people from a kind of dry rot’: compulsion and the Labour government, 1929–1931
7. Incremental growth: Instructional Centres under the National Government
8. ‘Light green uniforms, white apron and caps’: training unemployed women
9. Camps as social service and social movement
10. ‘Down with the Concentration Camps!’ Opposition and protest
Conclusion – Understanding work camps: memory and context
Index
