UID:
almafu_9959240295002883
Format:
1 online resource (225 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-90254-9
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0-04-445733-2
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1-138-00663-7
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1-134-90255-7
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1-280-32621-2
,
0-203-18135-2
Content:
This comprehensive historical analysis of the emergence of Germany's modern leisure industry also provides a major contribution to the social history of working-class life in the nineteenth century.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; A Time and Place for Leisure; Time and inclination; The ability to pay; The Industrialization of Popular Culture; The working-class parish fair; Conflicts and resolutions; The segregation of festival culture; Socialist festival culture; Blueprint for the future; The Lubricant of Leisure; Workplace drinking; Drink and the family; Drink and the labour movement; Cultural aid to social stimulant; From the Street to the Stage; The taming of popular entertainment; Tingel-Tangels and music halls; The dance craze; Real entertainment
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The Organization of LeisureThe beginnings of associational life; An 'alternative' associational movement; Club life; Spontaneity to organization; The Struggle for Control; Useful pursuits; Lungs of the city; Social reform or social control?; From Control to Commercialization; The rise of the cinema; Commercial culture versus working-class culture; The triumph of commercial culture?; Conclusions: a Working-Class Leisure Culture?; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-24624-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-07635-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203181355
