Working-class organisations and popular tourism, 1840-1970 - Susan Barton

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Title
Working-class organisations and popular tourism, 1840-1970
Author
Susan Barton
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20110401

Today, many people take the idea of holidays for granted and regard the provision of paid time off as a right. This book argues that popular tourism has its roots in collective organisation and charts the development of the working class holiday over two centuries. Starting with the cult of St. Monday, the problem of absenteeism of northern textile workers during Wakes Week, and ending with the cheap foreign package holiday of the late twentieth century, this study recounts how short, unpaid and often unauthorised periods of leave from work became organised and legitimised through legislation, culminating with the Holidays with Pay Act of 1938. Moreover, this study finds that it was through collective activity by workers - through savings clubs, friendly societies and union activity - that the working class were originally able to take holidays, and it was as a result of collective bargaining and campaigning that paid holidays were eventually secured for all. This fascinating study will be of use to students and scholars of social history, travel and tourism and labour studies.

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Susan Barton is a Research Fellow at de Montfort University.

Barton's study of tourism fills a niche that so far has been little examined'

This fascinating study. has given us an admirable piece of social history.'

Type
BOOK
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
256

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