Blood, Sweat, and Toil - Remaking the British Working Class, 1939-1945

Blood, Sweat, and Toil is the first scholarly history of the British working class in the Second World War. It integrates social, political, and labour history, and reflects the most recent scholarship and debates on social class, gender, and the forging of identities.

About the author

Geoffrey Field received his undergraduate degree in history from Oxford University and a Ph.D from Columbia University. His research and publications have focused on twentieth-century German and British history and European racism. His book, Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, won the Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best book on race relations in any discipline and an Outstanding Book of the Year Award from Choice. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and the University of Paris, 13. He is also a former Chair of the New York Council for the Humanities, was a Senior Editor of International Labor and Working-Class History, and continues to serve on the journal's editorial board.

Summary

Blood, Sweat, and Toil is the first scholarly history of the British working class in the Second World War. It integrates social, political, and labour history, and reflects the most recent scholarship and debates on social class, gender, and the forging of identities.

Additional text

in its challenge to the triumphalist narrative of the war, Field's study has staying power. Blood, Sweat, and Toil will perhaps have its greatest afterlife in the classroom ... The individual chapters on women's mobilization, evacuees, the Blitz, industrial relations and trade unions, or the military could surely provide undergraduates with a more complex survey of Britain's "good war," including the serious class tensions that shaped the wartime experience.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey G. Field, Geoffrey G. (Professor of History Field, Field Geoffrey G.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9780199675364
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967536-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Political Parties, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Politics and government, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Political parties and party platforms