Title: Working-class life in Northern England, 1945-2010 : the pre-history and after-life of the inbetweener generation /
Authors: Blackshaw, Tony, 1960-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Working class England, Northern Social conditions.; Working class England, Northern Social life and customs.; England, Northern Social conditions.; England Social life and customs; England, Northern History.
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. Using life history research conducted with the intermediary generation that preceded the Boomers, the author explores Zygmunt Bauman's bold vision of modern historical change as the shift from solid modernity to liquid modernity. Blackshaw argues that this shift was marked by a 'pure event' that led to the onset of the twentieth-century Interregnum in which 'a great variety of interesting phenomena did appear', but most notably a revolution in everyday life that radically altered the reigning structures of time and order --
Contents: 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 inbetweners, 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.