Worktowners at Blackpool : Mass-Observation and popular leisure in the 1930s

Author(s)

• Cross, Gary S.
• Walton, John K.

Bibliographic Information

Worktowners at Blackpool : Mass-Observation and popular leisure in the 1930s

edited by Gary Cross ; afterword by John K. Walton

Routledge, 1990

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• Part 1
• Chapter 1 WORK
• Chapter 2 THE ORDER OF TIME
• Chapter 3 THE HOLIDAY DREAM
• Part 2
• Chapter 4 THE HOLIDAY EXODUS
• Chapter 5, THE ESSENTIALS OF HOLIDAY LIFE
• Chapter 6 WITCH DOCTOR
• Part 3
• Chapter 7 AROUND THE TOWER AND OUT TO THE SEA
• Chapter 8, THE PEOPLE'S PLAYGROUND
• Chapter 9 FOURTH DIMENSION
• Chapter 10 PENNIES FROM HEAVEN AND FROM EARTH
• Chapter 11 THEATRES AND CINEMA
• Chapter 12 THE FRINGE OF OUR LAW
• Part 4
• Chapter 13 DAY ROUTINE
• Chapter 14 CHILDREN
• Chapter 15 THE MOB
• Chapter 16 DANCING
• Chapter 17 SEX
• Chapter 18 INTERSEX AND THE MORAL LAW
• Part 5
• Chapter 19, BLACKPOOL PEOPLE
• Chapter 20 LIGHTS IN AUTUMN
• Chapter 21 RELICS FROM HOLY BLACKPOOL AFTERWORD: MASS-OBSERVATION'S BLACKPOOL AND SOME ALTERNATIVES, John K. Walton
• Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA11650180
• ISBN:
  • 041504071X
• LCCN: 89049693
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 245 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GV76.E7
  • DC20 : 917.53
  • DC20 : 942.765
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mass-Observation
  • LCSH : Leisure -- England -- Blackpool (Lancashire) -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Working class -- England -- Blackpool (Lancashire) -- History -- 20th century
  • FREE : Lancashire