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1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations |
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illustration |
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Key issues in cultural heritage |
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Key issues in cultural heritage.
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| Contents |
Class, commemoration, and conflict -- The 1984/85 miners' strike : re-claiming cultural heritage / Michael Bailey and Simon Popple -- Remembering haymarket and the control for public memory / Paul Shackel -- The social and environmental upheaval of Blair Mountain: a working class struggle for unionization and historic preservation / Brandon Nida and Michael Jessee Adkins -- This is our island : multiple class heritage or ethnic solidarities? / Richard Courtney -- Recognising and commemorating communities -- Don't mourn organize : heritage, recognition, and memory in Castleford, West Yorkshire / Laurjane Smith and Gary Campbell -- Images, icons and artefacts : maintaining an industrial culture in a post-industrial environment / David Wray -- A working town empowered : retelling textile history at Cooleemee, North Carolina / Tamasin Wedgwood -- The silencing of blackball working class heritage, New Zealand / Paul Maunder -- Working class self-representation and intangible heritage -- Working class autobiography as cultural heritage / Tim Strangleman -- You say "po'-boy", I say poor boy : New Orleans culinary and labour history sandwiched together / Michael Mizell-Nelson -- Swedish working class literature and the class politics of heritage / Magnus Nilssen -- Singing for socialism / Kate Bowan and Paul Pickering -- "Faces in the street" : the Australian poetic working class heritage / Sarah Attfield -- Industrial folk song in our time / Mark Gregory -- Case studies in commemoration, remembrance and forgetting -- "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 -- Tolpuddle, burston and levellers : the making of radical and national heritages at English labour movement festivals / Hilda Kean -- Working class heritage without the working class : an ethnographic inquiry on gentrification in Ciutat (Mallorca) / Marc Morell |
| 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 understanding heritage and history, and in what ways is it used as a contemporary resource?" It also explores how heritage is used in working class communities and by labour organizations, and considers what meanings and significance this heritage may have, while also identifying how and why communities and their heritage have been excluded. Drawing on new scholarship in heritage studies, social memory, the public history of labour, and new working class studies, this volume highlights the heritage of working people, communities and organizations. Contributions are drawn from a number of Western countries including the USA, UK, Spain, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, and from a range of disciplines including heritage and museum studies, history, sociology, politics, archaeology and anthropology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Labor -- History
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Working class -- History
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Labor movement -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Labor
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Labor movement
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Working class
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Arbetarrörelsen -- historia.
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Arbetarklassen -- historia.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Laurajane
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Shackel, Paul A
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Campbell, Gary
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| ISBN |
9780203813232 |
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0203813235 |
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9781136698545 |
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113669854X |
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9781136698491 |
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1136698493 |
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9781136698538 |
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1136698531 |
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