LEISURE, GENDER AND POVERTY by DAVIES A
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LEISURE, GENDER AND POVERTY
Summary
Covers diversity of working-class culture in Salford and Manchester in the early part of the century. The book shows how this culture was shaped by unemployment and poverty, and was refracted by gender.
LEISURE, GENDER AND POVERTY Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 Poverty: poverty before World War I; poverty and unemployment between the Wars; poverty and human needs. Part 2 Men - poverty, unemployment and the family: poverty and the denial of leisure; leisure as a cause of poverty. Part 3 Women - housekeeping, leisure and independence: time and money; drink and respectability; cinemas; fortune tellers and spiritualists. Part 4 Young workers - parents, politics and freedom: family economy and family relationships; dance halls; cinemas; corner gangs; monkey parades. Part 5 Streets, markets and parks: street life and neighbourhood relationships; street entertainers and working-class charity; street customs; Saturday night markets; parks. Part 6 Gambling: back entry bookmakers and the police; bookmakers and neighbourhood life; gambling schools and working-class sports; gambling and working-class culture. Appendices: occupational structure; respondents' biographies.
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GOR007641060
9780335156375
0335156371
LEISURE, GENDER AND POVERTY by DAVIES A
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Open University Press
19920516
210
N/A
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