Doing Working-Class History -

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Résumé :

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. 'What are those ones with the hammers?': Teaching working class history in secondary schools 4. 'Everyone has a tale to tell': 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 Women's Franchise League in Dublin, 1908-1916 10. Bootstraps and bras: Maidenform, the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, and the creation of a new export-led economy in Puerto Rico 11. Patriotism and the English working class, c. 1902-1929 12. Medical care for working-class children in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century 13. 'I have told her that it was neglected, and asked her why': Working-class women and discourses of 'bad motherhood' in England and Wales, 1870-1939 14. Unorganised Workers: Wool textile workers and class identities in twentieth-century Yorkshire 15. 'Where the Brass Band is Beloved', Brass Bands and working-class cultural identity: Inventing a musical metonym in the Southern Pennines, c.1840-1914 16. Street life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c. 1870-1960 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. 'We tell our own stories:' Bussing Out, a creative installation about working-class children in Bradford 21. 'The Past We Inherit, the Future We Build': The praxis of working-class history