By Mass Observation
ISBN-10: 0571250408
ISBN-13: 9780571250400
Mass remark was once based through Tom Harrisson, Charles Madge and Humphrey Jennings in 1937. Its goal was once to create 'an anthropology of ourselves' in different phrases, to review the standard lives of standard humans in Britain. Discounting an preliminary pamphlet, this used to be the second one booklet to be released. it sounds as if in Faber unearths as part of an intensive reissue programme of the unique Mass remark titles.
Subjects lined comprise smoking, pub-going and soccer swimming pools. there's a part given over to a couple of these who had joined Mass statement the place they clarify their purposes for doing so. to cite the unique blurb, 'They comprise a London park-keeper, a operating classification lady within the North of britain, a middle-aged employee in an armaments manufacturing facility, a girl instructor in an little one institution, a naval petty-officer, a bus-driver's spouse, a Yorkshire weaver, a health center nurse, a pharmacist within the East finish and a metal employee in Scotland.'
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