Blood, sweat, and toil : remaking the British working class, 1939-1945 / Geoffrey G. Field.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: x, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780199604111 (hardback)
- 0199604118 (hardback)
- Remaking the British working class, 1939-1945
- Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
- Working class -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Class consciousness -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945
- 305.562094109044 23
- HD8391 .F54 2011
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"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.
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.