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Blood, sweat, and toil : Remaking the British working class, 1939-1945 / Geoffrey G. Field.

By: Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.Description: x, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199675368
  • 9780199675364
  • 9780199604111
  • 0199604118
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.562 FIEĀ 23
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.
Summary: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.