Working-Class Life in Northern England, 1945-2010: The Pre-History and After-Life of the Inbetweener Generation

by Tony Blackshaw

Overview

Taking a fresh look the history of northern working-class life in the second half of the twentieth century, this book turns to the concept of generation and generational change. The author explores Zygmunt Bauman's bold vision of modern historical change as the shift from solid modernity to liquid modernity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230348141
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/23/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	247
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Tony Blackshaw is a Reader at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has published works on a broad range of themes which include the following books: Leisure Life: Myth, Masculinity and Modernity (2003), Zygmunt Bauman (2005), Key Concepts in Community Studies (2010) and Leisure (2010).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Working-Class Life in the Twentieth-Century Interregnum PART I: SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF METHOD 2. Walking With My Thesis: Thinking with Feeling, Cultural Fall, Paradise Lost, 'Pure Event' and Some Other Characteristics of a Hermeneutical Exercise 3. Location in the Intellectual Landscape: The Methodological, Theoretical and Metaphysical Orientation of the Present Study PART II: THE INBETWEENERS, THEN AND NOW 4. That Was Then: Unpacking a Sensible World 5. Certain Aspects of the Interregnum: Disrupting the Reigning Structures of Historical Time and Order 6. This is Now: A World Inhospitable to Inbetweeners and Some Strategies for Living Between Worlds Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'In [the book], Blackshaw sets up the 'Inbetweeners', a generation that spans a good deal of the 20th century sitting between an earlier traditional solid working-class and those of the later 'boomer' generation [it] shows us how modern Britain was forged before, during and after the war. The shape of work, industrial relations, post-war political affiliations, and housing tenure are all powerfully influenced by the politics of class. We learn too of the importance of working-class organization and solidarity built across generations.'- Sociology , Volume 48

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