Susan Barton

Working-class organisations and popular tourism, 1840-1970

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines some of the most important performance in Britain and Northern Ireland from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. In a timely new critical approach, it considers contemporary British theatre in relation to national and supranational identities, concepts such as globalistion and diaspora, New Labour, devolution and European unification. -- .

Produktdetails

• Studies in Popular Culture
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780719065910
• ISBN-10: 0719065917
• Artikelnr.: 32734639

Autorenporträt

Susan Barton is a Research Fellow at de Montfort University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. No Grand Tours - tourism before 1850 2. Workers and the
Great Exhibition - the origins of the package holiday 3. Holidays without
pay 4. Collective bargaining for holidays with pay 5. Accommodation for
working class visitors 6. Holidays and the state - planning for workers'
needs after the Holidays with Pay Act 7. Brits abroad Conclusion
Bibliography Index