Working-Class Organisations and Popular Tourism, 18401970 (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2011-04-01
Förlag
Manchester University Press
Medarbetare
Richards, Jeffrey (series ed.)
Illustrationer
Illustrations, black & white
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 13 mm
Vikt
359 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
49:B&W 6.14 x 9.21 in or 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780719065910

Working-Class Organisations and Popular Tourism, 18401970

av Susan Barton
Häftad,  Engelska, 2011-04-01
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Today, many people take the idea of holidays for granted and regard the provision of paid time off as a right. This book argues that popular tourism has its roots in collective organisation and charts the development of the working class holiday over two centuries. Starting with the cult of St. Monday, the problem of absenteeism of northern textile workers during Wakes Week, and ending with the cheap foreign package holiday of the late twentieth century, this study recounts how short, unpaid and often unauthorised periods of leave from work became organised and legitimised through legislation, culminating with the Holidays with Pay Act of 1938. Moreover, this study finds that it was through collective activity by workers - through savings clubs, friendly societies and union activity - that the working class were originally able to take holidays, and it was as a result of collective bargaining and campaigning that paid holidays were eventually secured for all. This fascinating study will be of use to students and scholars of social history, travel and tourism and labour studies. -- .
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Bartons study of tourism fills a niche that so far has been little examined' This fascinating study has given us an admirable piece of social history.' -- .

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Susan Barton is a Research Fellow at de Montfort University. -- .

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Introduction 1. No Grand Tours - tourism before 1850 2. Workers and the Great Exhibition - the origins of the package holiday 3. Holidays without pay 4. Collective bargaining for holidays with pay 5. Accommodation for working class visitors 6. Holidays and the state - planning for workers needs after the Holidays with Pay Act 7. Brits abroad Conclusion Bibliography Index -- .

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