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In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton became the focus of a ground-breaking study and social experiment. Over three years, a team of over ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work and play - in the pub, dance hall, factory and on holiday. Their aim was to create an 'anthropology of ourselves'. It was the first of its kind, and later grew into the Mass Observation movement that proved so crucial to the understanding of public opinion in the Second World War and beyond. The project attracted a cast of larger-than-life characters, not least its founders, the eccentric anthropologist, Tom Harrisson, and the London surrealist intellectuals Charles Madge and Humphrey Jennings. They were joined by a disparate band of students, artists, writers and photographers, unemployed workers and local volunteers who worked tirelessly to turn the idle pleasure of people-watching into a science. Drawing on these extraordinary, underused first-hand sources, David Hall creates a richly detailed portrait of this lost chapter of British social history, before the world changed for ever.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities History

• Pełny tytuł: Worktown
• Autor: David Hall
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 320
• EAN: 9780297871682
• ISBN: 0297871684
• ID: 04572346
• Wydawca: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
• Waga: 718 g
• Wymiary: 234 × 153 × 32 mm
• Data wydania: 13. August 2015

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