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Working men's bodies
Work camps in Britain, 1880-1940|
129,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 16.05.2016 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781526112521 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 272 |
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Beschreibungen
Britain’s work camp systems have never before been studied in depth. Highly readable, and based on thorough archival research and the reminiscences of those involved, this fascinating book addresses the relations between work, masculinity, training and citizen service.
The book is a comprehensive study, from the labour colonies of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain to the government instructional centres of the 1930s. It covers therapeutic communities for alcoholics, epileptics, prostitutes and ‘mental defectives’, as well as alternative communities founded by socialists, anarchists and nationalists in the hope of building a new world. It explores residential training schemes for women, many of which sought to develop ‘soft bodies’ fit for domestic service, while more mainstream camps were preoccupied with ‘hardening’ male bodies through heavy labour.
Working men’s bodies will interest anyone specialising in modern British history, and those concerned with social policy, training policy, unemployment, and male identities.
The book is a comprehensive study, from the labour colonies of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain to the government instructional centres of the 1930s. It covers therapeutic communities for alcoholics, epileptics, prostitutes and ‘mental defectives’, as well as alternative communities founded by socialists, anarchists and nationalists in the hope of building a new world. It explores residential training schemes for women, many of which sought to develop ‘soft bodies’ fit for domestic service, while more mainstream camps were preoccupied with ‘hardening’ male bodies through heavy labour.
Working men’s bodies will interest anyone specialising in modern British history, and those concerned with social policy, training policy, unemployment, and male identities.
The first in-depth study of Britain’s many work camp systems.
1. Colonising the land
2. ‘We work amongst the lowest stratum of life’: the early labour colonies
3. Labour colonies and public health
4. Alternative living in the English countryside: utopian colonies
5. ‘The landless man to the manless land’: labour colonies and the Empire
6. ‘Save our young people from a kind of dry rot’: compulsion and the Labour government, 1929–1931
7. Incremental growth: Instructional Centres under the National Government
8. ‘Light green uniforms, white apron and caps’: training unemployed women
9. Camps as social service and social movement
10. ‘Down with the Concentration Camps!’ Opposition and protest
Conclusion – Understanding work camps: memory and context
Index
2. ‘We work amongst the lowest stratum of life’: the early labour colonies
3. Labour colonies and public health
4. Alternative living in the English countryside: utopian colonies
5. ‘The landless man to the manless land’: labour colonies and the Empire
6. ‘Save our young people from a kind of dry rot’: compulsion and the Labour government, 1929–1931
7. Incremental growth: Instructional Centres under the National Government
8. ‘Light green uniforms, white apron and caps’: training unemployed women
9. Camps as social service and social movement
10. ‘Down with the Concentration Camps!’ Opposition and protest
Conclusion – Understanding work camps: memory and context
Index
John Field is a Professor in the School of Education, University of Stirling, Scotland
John Field’s book is the first in-depth study of Britain’s many work camp systems. Highly readable, and based on painstaking archival research, as well as reminiscences of those involved, it tackles aspects of work, masculinity, training and citizen service that sound remarkably familiar in today’s world.
Labour colonies flourished in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, providing a combination of work and discipline for such diverse groups as the unemployed, alcoholics, epileptics, ex-servicemen and ‘mental defectives’. Socialists, anarchists and feminists also founded their own land colonies, in the hope of building a new world. Government and others also used work camps to train potential emigrants for the Dominions. With the unemployment crisis of the 1930s, these different initiatives were overtaken by a national system of government work camps, designed to ‘harden’ the long term unemployed. The book also explores residential training schemes for women, including the domestic servant training centres of the interwar years, and nineteenth-century colonies for deviant women.
While specific British circumstances shaped the systems that developed here, we can also understand work camps as an international phenomenon, ranging from well-known systems in Germany and the USA to lesser-known camp movements in Sweden and Ireland. Yet almost all work camp movements shared a preoccupation with men, seeking to reshape their bodies through heavy labour.
Working men’s bodies will interest anyone specialising in modern British history, as well as those concerned with social policy, vocational education and male identities.
Labour colonies flourished in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, providing a combination of work and discipline for such diverse groups as the unemployed, alcoholics, epileptics, ex-servicemen and ‘mental defectives’. Socialists, anarchists and feminists also founded their own land colonies, in the hope of building a new world. Government and others also used work camps to train potential emigrants for the Dominions. With the unemployment crisis of the 1930s, these different initiatives were overtaken by a national system of government work camps, designed to ‘harden’ the long term unemployed. The book also explores residential training schemes for women, including the domestic servant training centres of the interwar years, and nineteenth-century colonies for deviant women.
While specific British circumstances shaped the systems that developed here, we can also understand work camps as an international phenomenon, ranging from well-known systems in Germany and the USA to lesser-known camp movements in Sweden and Ireland. Yet almost all work camp movements shared a preoccupation with men, seeking to reshape their bodies through heavy labour.
Working men’s bodies will interest anyone specialising in modern British history, as well as those concerned with social policy, vocational education and male identities.
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