Working-class Housing in England Between the Wars

Working-class Housing in England Between the Wars
Author: Andrzej Olechnowicz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780198206507

Built between 1921 and 1934, the London County Council's Becontree Estate was the largest public housing scheme ever undertaken in Britain, and, at the time of its planning, in the world. Using interviews with surviving tenants from the inter-year period, Dr Olechnowicz discusses the early years of the estate, looking in detail at the philosophy behind its construction and management, and showing how it eventually came to be denigrated as a social concentration camp.

Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800000

Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800000
Author: Robert Colls
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2018-01-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351161660

Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 addresses the changing nature of individualism and public service in the 19th and 20th centuries, and consists of a collection of essays authored by senior figures in economic, social, cultural and educational history. The question of the balance between the life of the private citizen and the need to play an active role in the wider community, is one that recurs throughout history. In this book the shifting nature of civic responsibility between 1800 and 1990 is addressed, looking at the balance of individual and collective responsibilities as well as obligation to a growing democratic state. The ten essays by leading scholars in the field of urban and social history offer fresh and important insights into governance and civil society in the modern period.

Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946-1962

Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946-1962
Author: Barış Alp Özden
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2024-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1805392751

The political identities of the Turkish working class began a transformative journey that started during a period of industrialization following World War II and continued until the military interventions of 1960. Working Class Formation in Turkey addresses common, structural generalizations to recover the complex history of developing political, recreational, familial, residential, and work-related lives of Turkish workers. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, this volume brings the concept of “everydayness” to the fore and uncovers the local contexts that fostered class solidarity, examines labor practices that fueled radicalism, and analyzes the shifting dynamics of industrial discipline that impacted working class identity and culture.

The British Working Class 1832-1940

The British Working Class 1832-1940
Author: Andrew August
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317877977

In this insightful new study, Andrew August examines the British working class in the period when Britain became a mature industrial power, working men and women dominated massive new urban populations, and the extension of suffrage brought them into the political nation for the first time. Framing his subject chronologically, but treating it thematically, August gives a vivid account of working class life between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, examining the issues and concerns central to working-class identity. Identifying shared patterns of experience in the lives of workers, he avoids the limitations of both traditional historiography dominated by economic determinism and party politics, and the revisionism which too readily dismisses the importance of class in British society.

A Contrived Countryside

A Contrived Countryside
Author: Keith Hoggart
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030626512

This book shows how governance regimes before the 1970s suppressed rural prospects of housing improvement and created conditions for middle-class capture. Using original archival sources to reveal the intricacies of local and national policy processes, weak rural housing performances are shown to owe more to national governance regimes than local under-performance. Looking `behind the scenes' at policy processes highlights neglected principles in national governance, and shows how investigating rural housing is fundamental to understanding the national scene. With original insights and a new analytical perspective, this volume offers evidence and conclusions that challenge mainstream assumptions in public policy, housing, rural studies and planning.

Wholesome Dwellings: Housing Need in Oxford and the Municipal Response, 1800-1939

Wholesome Dwellings: Housing Need in Oxford and the Municipal Response, 1800-1939
Author: Malcolm Graham
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2020-09-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789697360

This study by Malcolm Graham, a leading Oxford local historian for many years, provides a fascinating insight into post-war housing needs in Oxford, and how the modern city evolved away from the university buildings and college quadrangles for which the city is internationally renowned.

The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950

The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950
Author: F. M. L. Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521438155

Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians, they have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that an outpouring of research and writing is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists has assembled the jigsaw of topical monographic research and presented an interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from three perspectives: those of regional communities, the working and living environment, and social institutions. Each volume is self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic change.

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain
Author: Peter Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521417075

The process of urbanisation and suburbanisation in Britain from the Victorian period to the twentieth century.

Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain

Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain
Author: Geraint Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2020-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 110858327X

This radical new reading of British Conservatives' fortunes between the wars explores how the party adapted to the challenges of mass democracy after 1918. Geraint Thomas offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between local and national Conservatives' political strategies for electoral survival, which ensured that Conservative activists, despite their suspicion of coalitions, emerged as champions of the cross-party National Government from 1931 to 1940. By analysing the role of local campaigning in the age of mass broadcasting, Thomas re-casts inter-war Conservatism. Popular Conservatism thus emerges less as the didactic product of Stanley Baldwin's consensual public image, and more concerned with the everyday material interests of the electorate. Exploring the contributions of key Conservative figures in the National Government, including Neville Chamberlain, Walter Elliot, Oliver Stanley, and Kingsley Wood, this study reveals how their pursuit of the 'politics of recovery' enabled the Conservatives to foster a culture of programmatic, activist government that would become prevalent in Britain after the Second World War.

The Working Class in Britain

The Working Class in Britain
Author: John Benson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003-08-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857718002

Who made up the working class in Britain, who were the ordinary men and women and what were their aspirations? The first generation of postwar British labour historians tended to be preoccupied with working class activism. This texts attempts to chart not only this struggle, but to describe and analyse the rich and varied tapestry of working-class history as a whole. It demonstrates that "class" both existed and mattered although ordinary men and women had diverse lives and lifestyles. Professor Benson examines work, wages, incomes and the cost of living, family, kinship and community relations and the individual in the context of nation and class.