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From Labor History to the History of Consumption - Labour and Society in Britain and the USA. By Neville Kirk. 2 vols. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1994. vol. 1: pp. 270, $67.95; vol. 2: pp. 480, $84.95. - Working-Class Cultures in Britain, 1890–1960: Gender, Class and Ethnicity. By Joanna Bourke. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 275. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). - The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain, 1890–1980. By John Benson. London and New York: Longman, 1994. Pp. 245. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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Labour and Society in Britain and the USA. By Neville Kirk. 2 vols. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1994. vol. 1: pp. 270, $67.95; vol. 2: pp. 480, $84.95.
Working-Class Cultures in Britain, 1890–1960: Gender, Class and Ethnicity. By Joanna Bourke. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 275. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain, 1890–1980. By John Benson. London and New York: Longman, 1994. Pp. 245. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

James Obelkevich
James Obelkevich*
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University of Warwick
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , July 1996 , pp. 413 - 418
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1 See Jones, Gareth Stedman, Languages of Class: Studies in English Working-Class History, 1832–1982 (Cambridge, 1983)Google Scholar; and Joyce, Patrick, Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, 1848–1914 (Cambridge, 1991)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 See Joyce.

3 Hoggart, Richard, The Uses of Literacy (London: Chatto & Windus, 1957)Google Scholar.

4 Gorer, Geoffrey, Exploring English Character (London: Cresset Press, 1955), pp. 83, 86Google Scholar, tables 42, 47.

5 See Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Population Investigation Committee, Maternity in Great Britain (Oxford, 1948), p. 83Google Scholar.