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Blood, sweat, and toil : remaking the British Working Class, 1939-1945 /

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"Blood, Sweat, and Toil is the first scholarly history of the British working class in the Second World War. It integrates social, political, and labour history, and reflects the most recent scholarship and debates on social class, gender, and the forging of identities."--Publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Field, Geoffrey G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Working class > Great Britain.
Working class.
Great Britain.
Arbeiterklasse.
Alltag.
Klassenbewusstsein.
Weltkrieg.
Grossbritannien.
Society.
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Table of Contents:
  • Evacuation
  • Class and Community in the Blitz, 1940-41
  • The Industrial Front and Trade Unionism
  • The Mobilization of Women
  • Family in Trouble
  • Leisure, Culture, and Class
  • A Citizens' Army
  • Wartime Radicals Envision a New Order, 1940-1942
  • 1945 And All That.