Workers at Play by Stephen G Jones
First published in 1986. This book explores developments in the cinema, sport, holidays, gambling, drinking and many more recreational activities, and situates working-class leisure within the determining economic and social context. In particular, the inventiveness of working people 'at play' is highlighted.-
The French Workers' Movement
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The International Labour Organisation
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Reshaping Labour
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Trade Unions and the Labour Party since 1945
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John Wheatley, Catholic Socialism, and Irish Labour in the West of Scotland, 1906-1924
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Democratic Socialism and the Cost of Defence
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Employers and Labour in the English Textile Industries, 1850-1939
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The British Labour Movement and Film, 1918-1939
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The Democratic Class Struggle
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King Labour
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The British Co-operative Movement in a Socialist Society
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Labour's Battle in the U.S.A
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The Labour Party and Whitehall
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Labour's Utopias
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Reconstruction, Affluence and Labour Politics
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Ben Tillett
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Labour into the Eighties
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Labour Relations and Political Change in Eastern Europe
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The Life of Robert Owen
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Protest or Power?
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The First Labour Party 1906-1914
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What's Left?
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Doctrine and Ethos in the Labour Party
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A History of the Labour Party from 1914
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Recollections of a Labour Pioneer
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Organised Labour
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New Jerusalems
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The Trade Unions and the Labour Party
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The Fifth Estate
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Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918
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An Infantile Disorder?
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Keir Hardie
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Labour
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Political Purpose in Trade Unions
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The Political Dimension of Labor-Management Relations
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British Working Class Politics, 1832-1914
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The Changing Labour Party
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Labour's Conscience
Stephen Graham Jones has written fifteen novels and six collections of short stories. He has won various honors, including the National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. The novel received the James Lee Burke Award for Outstanding Work of Fiction, the Independent Publisher Book Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the This Is Horror Award, as well as being named one of Bloody Disgusting's Top Ten Horror Books of the Year. Stephen was born and reared in the state of Texas. With his wife and children, he now resides in Boulder, Colorado.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781138327009 |
| ISBN 10 | 113832700X |
| Title | Workers at Play |
| Author | Stephen G Jones |
| Series | Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2020-05-13 |
| Number of pages | 306 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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