Doing Working-Class History: Research, Heritage, and Engagement [Hardcover]

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 Womens Franchise League in Dublin, 19081916? 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. 19021929? 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: Workingclass women and discourses of bad motherhood in England and Wales, 18701939? 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.18401914? 16. Street life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c. 18701960? 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 workl“°