Worktown

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Worktown

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About the book

The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of 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'. The first of its kind, it later grew into the Mass Observation movement that proved so cru...Show more

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ISBN

9781780227801

Publisher

Orion Publishing Co

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

Worktown

Format

Paperback

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