Doing Working-Class History

Introduction: A time for working-class histories Part 1: Working-class history in perspective 1. Disability in working class history 2. Parasites unite: Sensory history, the possibilities of transgression, and the perceptual manifesto of the proletariat 3. âWhat are those ones with the hammers?â: Teaching working class history in secondary schools 4. âEveryone has a tale to tellâ: Family history, family historians and working-class histories 5. Museums and Heritage Sites as sources for working-class history 6. Reading against the grain: Non-Plebian Sources in working-class history 7. Accessible bibliography Part 2: Working-class history in context 8. The Daily Citizen: Class v consumerism in the early Labour press 9. Gender politics of class: Exploring the connections and collaboration between the Irish labour movement and the Irish Womenâs Franchise League in Dublin, 1908â"1916 10. Bootstraps and bras: Maidenform, the International Ladiesâ Garment Workers Union, and the creation of a new export-led economy in Puerto Rico 11. Patriotism and the English working class, c. 1902â"1929 12. Medical care for working-class children in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century 13. âI have told her that it was neglected, and asked her whyâ: Workingâ"class women and discourses of âbad motherhoodâ in England and Wales, 1870â"1939 14. Unorganised Workers: Wool textile workers and class identities in twentieth-century Yorkshire 15. âWhere the Brass Band is Belovedâ, Brass Bands and working-class cultural identity: Inventing a musical metonym in the Southern Pennines, c.1840â"1914 16. Street life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c. 1870â"1960 17. Coal miners in the industrialization and deindustrialization of France and Germany: A comparative synthesis of the Nord/Pas-de-Calais and the Ruhr Part 3: Working-class history in application 18. Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites 19. How broadside ballads followed us into this century 20. âWe tell our own stories:â Bussing Out, a creative installation about working-class children in Bradford 21. âThe Past We Inherit, the Future We Buildâ: The praxis of working-class history