Working-Class Life in Northern England, 1945-2010

Tony Blackshaw is a Reader at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has published works on a broad range of themes which include the following books: Leisure Life: Myth, Masculinity and Modernity (2003), Zygmunt Bauman (2005), Key Concepts in Community Studies (2010) and Leisure (2010).

• Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Working-Class Life in the Twentieth-Century Interregnum PART I: SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF METHOD 2. Walking With My Thesis: Thinking with Feeling, Cultural Fall, Paradise Lost, 'Pure Event' and Some Other Characteristics of a Hermeneutical Exercise 3. Location in the Intellectual Landscape: The Methodological, Theoretical and Metaphysical Orientation of the Present Study PART II: THE INBETWEENERS, THEN AND NOW 4. That Was Then: Unpacking a Sensible World 5. Certain Aspects of the Interregnum: Disrupting the Reigning Structures of Historical Time and Order 6. This is Now: A World Inhospitable to Inbetweeners and Some Strategies for Living Between Worlds Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

'In [the book], Blackshaw sets up the 'Inbetweeners', a generation that spans a good deal of the 20th century sitting between an earlier traditional solid working-class and those of the later 'boomer' generation [it] shows us how modern Britain was forged before, during and after the war. The shape of work, industrial relations, post-war political affiliations, and housing tenure are all powerfully influenced by the politics of class. We learn too of the importance of working-class organization and solidarity built across generations.'- Sociology , Volume 48