An edition of Worktown (2015)

Worktown

the astonishing story of the birth of Mass-Observation

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An edition of Worktown (2015)

Worktown

the astonishing story of the birth of Mass-Observation

"In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work and play - in the pub, dance hall, factory and on holiday. Their aim was to create an 'anthropology of ourselves'. The first of its kind, it later grew into the Mass Observation movement that proved so crucial to our understanding of public opinion in future generations. The project attracted a cast of larger-than-life characters, not least its founders, the charismatic and unconventional anthropologist Tom Harrisson and the surrealist intellectuals Charles Madge and Humphrey Jennings. They were joined by a disparate band of men and women - students, artists, writers and photographers, unemployed workers and local volunteers - who worked tirelessly to turn the idle pleasure of people-watching into a science ..."--Publisher description.

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Language
English
Pages
323

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Going native
Anthropology at home
You don't ask a bird any questions
Where cotton was king
The coronation
Across the class divide
The secret photographer
A day in the life
Health, housing and politics
Politics and the non-voter
The pub and the people
Snoopers
Worktown women
Pinch the sermon
Compromised
A night on town
Art and the ordinary chap
Arrivals and departures
Sleeping with the natives
Skirmishes and battles.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London
Other Titles
Work town
Copyright Date
2015

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.0942737/09043
Library of Congress
HN29 .H284 2015, HN16, HN398.B65 H35 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
323

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31950662M
Internet Archive
worktownastonish0000hall
ISBN 10
0297871684
ISBN 13
9780297871682
OCLC/WorldCat
918792140

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