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Working-class life in northern England, 1945–2010

the pre-history and after-life of the inbetweener generation

Tony Blackshaw

Abstract

Taking a fresh look the history of northern working-class life in the second half of the twentieth century, this book turns to the concept of generation and generational change. The author explores Zygmunt Bauman's bold vision of modern historical change as the shift from solid modernity to liquid modernity.

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Introduction

working-class life in the twentieth-century interregnum

Tony Blackshaw

pp.1-28

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349033_1
Walking with my thesis

thinking with feeling, cultural fall, Paradise lost, "pure event" and some other characteristics of a hermeneutical exercise

Tony Blackshaw

pp.31-64

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349033_2
Location in the intellectual landscape

the methodological, theoretical and metaphysical orientation of the present study

Tony Blackshaw

pp.65-93

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349033_3
Certain aspects of the interregnum

disrupting the reigning structures of historical time and order

Tony Blackshaw

pp.144-179

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349033_5
This is now

a world inhospitable to inbetweeners and some strategies for living between worlds

Tony Blackshaw

pp.180-221

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349033_6

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2013

Pages: 247

DOI: 10.1057/9781137349033

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-34535-9

ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-34903-3

Full citation:

Blackshaw Tony (2013) Working-class life in northern England, 1945–2010: the pre-history and after-life of the inbetweener generation. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.