| Description |
xvii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
History workshop series |
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History workshop series.
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| Contents |
Part I. The means to a living -- Fishing - a way of life? -- Fishing communities and the developing exploitation of the sea's resources -- Part II. Capital and labour -- Trade unionism and industrial conflict -- Close-up : Lancashire / by Tony Wailey -- Strike - the Fleetwood trawlers, 1920 -- Community : life in the inshore village of Marshside -- The old ethic and the new - inshore village within a trawler port -- The aftermath of defeat : the paradox of rebellion and organisation -- Close-up : Aberdeen -- The nemesis of steam capitalism -- Part III. The economy and the family -- The penetration of capital and the family boat -- Women in the fishing -- Close-up : East Anglia / by Trevor Lummis -- Luck : longshoremen, smacksmen and driftermen -- The Protestant ethic, the family and the economy -- Part IV. Community and individuality -- Close-up : the Moray Firth -- The moral order of free enterprise : Buckie -- Close-up : the Western Isles -- The chiliams of despair : Lewis -- Close-up : Shetland -- A choice of destiny -- Ahead |
| Summary |
An in-depth examination of the fishing industry in England and Scotland, historically and up to the late 1970s-early 1980s |
| Analysis |
Great Britain Fishing communities Social conditions |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [385]-396 |
| Subject |
Fishers -- Great Britain -- History.
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Fishers' spouses -- Great Britain -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056954
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| Author |
Lummis, Trevor.
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Wailey, Tony.
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| LC no. |
83003053 |
| ISBN |
0710095082 |
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0710095198 |
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