Nicholas Mansfield
Ashgate
Hardback
242
2001
This new study looks at the ways in which the years surrounding the First World War shaped the lives of the rural workforce in Britain and how the patriotism unleashed by the war was used by those in power to blur class divisions and build conservative attitudes in rural communities. Using the area of Shropshire and the Marches as a focus the book looks at farmworkers and their trade unions the structures of agrarian economy class divisions local loyalties cultural institutions and political organisations.
Ashgate
Hardback
242
2001
This new study looks at the ways in which the years surrounding the First World War shaped the lives of the rural workforce in Britain and how the patriotism unleashed by the war was used by those in power to blur class divisions and build conservative attitudes in rural communities. Using the area of Shropshire and the Marches as a focus the book looks at farmworkers and their trade unions the structures of agrarian economy class divisions local loyalties cultural institutions and political organisations.