The people : the rise and fall of the working class, 1910-2010 /

What was it really like to live through the 20th century? In 1910, three-quarters of the population were working class, but their story has been ignored until now. Based on the first-person accounts of servants, factory workers, miners and housewives, award-winning historian Selina Todd reveals an u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Todd, Selina (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : John Murray, 2014.
Subjects:	Working class > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century. Great Britain > Civilization > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Servants, 1910-39. Defiance below stairs ; Bobbed-haired belligerents ; Enemies within ; Dole ; Interlude I: a star is born ; Politics at the Palais
The people, 1939-68. The people's war ; Interlude II: on the Lloyd George ; New Jerusalems ; Interlude III: setting the people free ; Communities ; Interlude IV: love and marriage ; Never having it so good ; Interlude V: the affluent society ; The golden age of the grammar school ; Working-class heroes ; Interlude VI: spend, spend, spend ; A new middle class? ; Interlude VII: on the make
The dispossessed, 1966-2010. New Britain ; Trouble and strife ; Interlude VIII: return to Castleford ; Hard times ; A classless society.