Working-Class Life in Northern England, 1945-2010 : The Pre-History and After-Life of the Inbetweener Generation

Taking a fresh look the history of northern working-class life in the second half of the twentieth century, this book turns to the concept of generation and generational change. Using life history research conducted with the intermediary generation that preceded the Boomers, the author explores Zygmunt Bauman's bold vision of modern historical change as the shift from solid modernity to liquid modernity. Blackshaw argues that this shift was marked by a 'pure event' that led to the onset of the twentieth-century Interregnum in which 'a great variety of interesting phenomena did appear', but most notably a revolution in everyday life that radically altered the reigning structures of time and order -- Provided by Publisher Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction: Working-Class Life in the Twentieth-Century Interregnum....Pages 1-28 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Walking with My Thesis: Thinking with Feeling, Cultural Fall, Paradise Lost, ‘Pure Event’ and Some Other Characteristics of a Hermeneutical Exercise....Pages 31-64 Location in the Intellectual Landscape: The Methodological, Theoretical and Metaphysical Orientation of the Present Study....Pages 65-93 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 That Was Then: Unpacking a Sensible World....Pages 97-143 Certain Aspects of the Interregnum: Disrupting the Reigning Structures of Historical Time and Order....Pages 144-179 This Is Now: A World Inhospitable to Inbetweeners and Some Strategies for Living between Worlds....Pages 180-221 Postscript....Pages 222-229 Back Matter....Pages 230-247 "Taking a fresh look the history of northern working-class life in the second half of the twentieth century, this book turns to the concept of generation and generational change. Using life history research conducted with the intermediary generation that preceded the Boomers, the author explores Zygmunt Bauman's bold vision of modern historical change as the shift from solid modernity to liquid modernity. Blackshaw argues that this shift was marked by a 'pure event' that led to the onset of the twentieth-century Interregnum in which 'a great variety of interesting phenomena did appear', but most notably a revolution in everyday life that radically altered the reigning structures of time and order."--Publisher's website