1st Edition

Worktowners at Blackpool Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s

By Gary Cross Copyright 1991
    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.

    Part 1; Chapter 1 WORK; Chapter 2 THE ORDER OF TIME; Chapter 3 THE HOLIDAY DREAM; Part 2; Chapter 4 THE HOLIDAY EXODUS; Chapter 5, THE ESSENTIALS OF HOLIDAY LIFE; Chapter 6 WITCH DOCTOR; Part 3; Chapter 7 AROUND THE TOWER AND OUT TO THE SEA; Chapter 8, THE PEOPLE'S PLAYGROUND; Chapter 9 FOURTH DIMENSION; Chapter 10 PENNIES FROM HEAVEN AND FROM EARTH; Chapter 11 THEATRES AND CINEMA; Chapter 12 THE FRINGE OF OUR LAW; Part 4; Chapter 13 DAY ROUTINE; Chapter 14 CHILDREN; Chapter 15 THE MOB; Chapter 16 DANCING; Chapter 17 SEX; Chapter 18 INTERSEX AND THE MORAL LAW; Part 5; Chapter 19, BLACKPOOL PEOPLE; Chapter 20 LIGHTS IN AUTUMN; Chapter 21 RELICS FROM HOLY BLACKPOOL AFTERWORD: MASS-OBSERVATION'S BLACKPOOL AND SOME ALTERNATIVES, John K. Walton; Index;

    Biography

    Gary Cross

    ` ... helps to recreate for us something of the feel of a vital component of mass-popular culture and as such should be warmly welcomed.' - Social History Society

    `It's a fascinating social document topped and tailed by informative modern appreciations of Mass-Observations methods.' - North West Labour History