1st Edition
A Vision for London, 1889-1914 labour, everyday life and the LCC experiment
By Susan D. Pennybacker
Copyright 1995
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
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Routledge
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The London County Council was a the world's largest municipal government and a laboratory for social experimentation before the Great War. It sought to master the problems of metropolitan amelioration, political economy and public culture. Pennybacker's social history tests the vision of London Progressivism against its practitioners' accomplishments. She argues that the historical memory of the... Read more
Acknowledgements Photographs, Prints and Documents Introduction Chapter I: The ways of life, aspirations and political culture of men and women `Blackcoated Workers' Chapter II: `The industrial reorganisation of society': The LCC Works Department and municipal socialism in practice Chapter III: The appetite for managing other people's lives Lists of abbreviations Notes on sources
Biography
Susan D. Pennybacker
