Labour and Leisure in Historical Perspective, Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Details:
- Author(s) Blanchard, Ian (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1994
- Pages 198pp
- Publisher Franz Steiner Verlag
- Place Published Stuttgart
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Comprises 12 essays, with origins as 1994 conference papers, largely comprising case studies of different European experiences with some focusing on England and Scotland. These include, for example, Dennis Brailsford, 'England, 1775-1815. A time for play' [pp101-9]; Douglas A Reid, 'Wedding days and the evolution of leisure time in the workshops and factories of industrial England, 1700-1961' [pp111-23]; Christopher A Whatley, ''The privilege which the rabble have to be riotous'. Carnivalesque and the monarch's birthday in Scotland, c1700-10' [pp89-100]