Social conditions, status and community, 1860-c. 1920
By: edited by Keith Laybourn.
Contributors: Laybourn, Keith.
Series: Sutton studies in modern British history ;; 3
Publisher: Sutton
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Thrup, Stroud, Gloucestershire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Community life -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Community life -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Community life in literature.; Poor laws -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Poor laws -- England -- History -- 20th century.; Poor -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Poor -- England -- History -- 20th century.; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Keith Laybourn; title: 1. Guild of Help and the community response to poverty, 1904; title: c. 1914 / Keith Laybourn; title: 2. Guilded help? / Fiona Cushlow; title: 3.  Terrible scourge of consumption is amongst us : the Guild of Help, voluntarism and the problem of tuberculosis in Edwardian Bolton / Stuart Robertson; title: 4. Health and environment in late Victorian and Edwardian Huddersfield / Becky Bryson; title: 5. 1908 Old Age Pensions Act : the Poor Law in a new disguise? / Margaret Jones; title: 6. Policing and the community : late twentieth-century myths and late nineteenth-century realities / David Taylor; title: 7. One could literally have walked on the heads of the people congregated there : sport, the town and identity / Jack Williams; title: 8. Masculine status and working-class culture in the Cleveland ironstone mining communities, 1850-1881 / Tony Nicholson; title: 9. Measuring the distance : D.H. Lawrence, Raymond Williams and the quest for community / Peter Gurney; title: 10. Working men, old Chartists and the Contagious Diseases Acts / Bertrand Taithe.