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

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

edited by Gary Cross ; afterword by John K. Walton

Routledge, 1990

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

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

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