Mass-Observation and everyday life: culture, history, theory

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List of Abbreviations Acknowlegdements INTRODUCTION: THE MASS-OBSERVATION PROJECT Defining Mass-Observation A Brief History of Mass-Observation Everyday Life and Social Transformation PART 1: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Everyday Life in the Long Twentieth Century Social Surveys: From Booth's Life and Labour of the London Poor to Kracauer's Die Angestellten and the Lynd's Middeltown PART 2: THE SPACE OF FORMER HEAVEN Cambridge Experiment Letter to Oxford British Social Anthropology Popular Poetry and the 'Thirties' PART 3: THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE MASSES Profane Illumination and New Objectivity English Surrealism and British Democracy Empson's Imaginary Solution PART 4: EARLY MASS-OBSERVATION The Formation of Mass-Observation Coronation Pastoral PART 5: BRITAIN BEGINS AT HOME First Year's Work First Year's Reception The Munich Crisis The Lambeth Walk PART 6: THE MOBILISATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE Active Leadership and the Civilian Army The Ministry of Everyday Co-operating with the Tax Collector PART 7: THE DEMOBILISATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE Politics, Pubs, Penguins Society in the Mind Resumption of the People's War Conclusion: Mass-Observation Reassessed Bibliography and Sources Index

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