Intro -- CONTENTS -- To the Working-classes of Great Britain -- Preface to the First German Edition -- Preface to the American Edition -- Preface to the English Edition -- From the Preface to the Second German Edition -- Introduction -- The Industrial Proletariat -- The Great Towns --...

This is a landmark study which examines the film and reading tastes of working-class consumers in 1930s Britain. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Robert James argues that working-class consumers used popular film and fiction to answer a range of cultural and social needs in this...

This book poses a major revisionist challenge to 20th century British labour history, aiming to look beyond the Marxist and Fabian exclusion of working class experience, notably religion and self-help, in order to exaggerate "labour movement" class cohesion. Instead of a "forward march" to...