Research Catalog

Title

Worktown : the astonishing story of the birth of Mass-Observation / David Hall.

Author

Hall, David (Television producer)

Publication

• London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016.
• ©2015

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Details

Description

xi, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white); 20 cm

Summary

"In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Inspired by the leadership of the charismatic anthropologist Tom Harrison, dozens of ideaistic young men and women headed north to go people-watching. In the first project of its kind, their aim was to study the everyday lives of ordinary working people - in the pub, dance hall and factory, at work and at play..."--Publisher description.

Alternative Title

Work town

Subject

• Mass-Observation (Firm)
• Mass-Observation Ltd
• 1900-1999
• Social surveys > England > Bolton (Greater Manchester) > History > 20th century
• Working class > England > Bolton (Greater Manchester) > History > 20th century
• Social conditions
• Social surveys
• Working class
• Ökonomische Anthropologie
• Sozialgeschichte
• Bolton (Greater Manchester, England) > Social conditions > 20th century
• England > Bolton (Greater Manchester)
• Bolton
• Gro€britannien

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-313) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9781780227801
• 1780227809

OCLC

• ocn978248268
• SCSB-1878001

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library