Heritage, labour, and the working classes / edited by Laurajane Smith, Paul A. Shackel and Gary Campbell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Laurajane.

Shackel, Paul A.

Campbell, Gary.

Series:

Key issues in cultural heritage.

Key issues in cultural heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--History.

Labor.

Working class--History.

Working class.

Labor movement--History.

Labor movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes is both a celebration and commemoration of working class culture. It contains sometimes inspiring accounts of working class communities and people telling their own stories, and weaves together examples of tangible and intangible heritage, place, history, memory, music and literature.Rather than being framed in a 'social inclusion' framework, which sees working class culture as a deficit, this book addresses the question ""What is labour and working class heritage, how does it differ or stand in opposition to dominant ways of understa

Contents:

Front Cover; Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Series general co-editors' forward; 1. Introduction: class still matters: Laurajane Smith, Paul A. Shackel and Gary Campbell; Part I: Class, Commemoration and Conflict; 2. The 1984/85 Miners' Strike: re-claiming cultural heritage: Michael Bailey and Simon Popple; 3. Remembering Haymarket and the control for public memory: Paul A. Shackel

4. The social and environmental upheaval of Blair Mountain: a working class struggle for unionisation and historic preservation: Brandon Nida and Michael Jessee Adkins5. This is our island: multiple class heritage or ethnic solidarities?: Richard Courtney; Part II: Recognising and Commemorating Communities; 6. Don't mourn organise: heritage, recognition and memory in Castleford, West Yorkshire: Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell; 7. Images, icons and artefacts: maintaining an industrial culture in a post-industrial environment: David Wray

8. A working town empowered: retelling textile history at Cooleemee, North Carolina: Tamasin Wedgwood9. The silencing of Blackball working class heritage, New Zealand: Paul Maunder; Part III: Working Class Self-Representation and Intangible Heritage; 10. Working class autobiography as cultural heritage: Tim Strangleman; 11. You say 'po' boy', I say poor boy: New Orleans culinary and labour history sandwiched together: Michael Mizell-Nelson; 12. Swedish working class literature and the class politics of heritage: Magnus Nilsson; 13. Singing for socialism: Kate Bowan and Paul A. Pickering

14. 'Faces in the Street': the Australian poetic working class heritage: Sarah Attfield15. Industrial folk song in our time: Mark Gregory; Part IV: Case Studies in Commemoration, Remembrance and Forgetting; 16. 'The world's most perfect town' reconsidered: negotiating class, labour and heritage in the Pullman community of Chicago: Jane Eva Baxter and Andrew H. Bullen; 17. Tolpuddle, Burston and Levellers: the making of radical and national heritages at English labour movement festivals: Hilda Kean

18. Working class heritage without the working class: an ethnography on gentrification in Ciutat (Mallorca): Marc MorellIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-69853-1

1-280-68271-X

9786613659651

1-136-69854-X

0-203-81323-5

9780203813232

OCLC:

804663980