The Classic Slum - Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century

A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the ''good old days'' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.>

Produktdetails

• Autoren: R. Roberts, Robert Roberts
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.07.1990
• EAN: 9780140136241
• ISBN: 978-0-14-013624-1
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 197 mm x 18 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Lancashire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Social History, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Poverty & unemployment, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Poverty and precarity