Rational recreation and the creation of the model citizen, c. 1850-1914 -- The era of mass leisure : the pleasure-seeking citizen -- Fearing for the empire : male youth, work and leisure, 1870-1914 -- Male leisure in the industrial suburb : 1918-39 : the rise of "suburban neurosis"? -- Male youth, work and leisure, 1918-39 : a continuity in lifestyle -- The era of mass communication : working-class male leisure and "good" citizenship between the wars -- Male leisure and citizenship in the Second World War
Summary
Working-class culture has often been depicted by historians as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw on a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both cl
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index
