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Worktowners at Blackpool : Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s - Gary Cross

Worktowners at Blackpool

Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s

By: Gary Cross

Paperback | 24 April 2014 | Edition Number 1

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Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.
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` ... helps to recreate for us something of the feel of a vital component of mass-popular culture and as such should be warmly welcomed.' - Social History Society

`It's a fascinating social document topped and tailed by informative modern appreciations of Mass-Observations methods.' - North West Labour History

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