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Blood, Sweat, and Toil

Remaking the British Working Class, 1939-1945

By: Geoffrey G. Field

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Blood, Sweat, and Toil

Remaking the British Working Class, 1939-1945

By: Geoffrey G. Field

Blood, Sweat, and Toil is the first scholarly history of the British working class in the Second World War. It integrates social, political, and labour history, and reflects the most recent scholarship and debates on social class, gender, and the forging of identities. Geoffrey Field examines the war's impact on workers in the varied contexts of the family, military service, the workplace, local communities, and the nation. Extensively researched, using official documents, diaries and letters, the records of trade unions and numerous other institutions, Blood, Sweat, and Toil traces the rapid growth of trade unionism, joint consultation, and strike actions in the war years. It also analyses the mobilization of women into factories and the uniformed services and the lives of men conscripted into the army, showing how these experiences shaped their aspirations and their social and political attitudes. Previous studies of the Home Front have analysed the lives of civilians, but they have neglected the importance of social class in defining popular experience and its centrality in public attitudes, official policy, and the politics of the war years. Contrary to accounts that view the war as eroding class divisions and creating a new sense of social unity in Britain, Field argues that the 1940s was a crucial decade in which the deeply fragmented working class of the interwar decades was 'remade', achieving new collective status, power, and solidarity. Employing a contingent, non-teleological conception of class identity and indicating the plural and shifting mix of factors that contributed to workers' social consciousness, he criticizes recent revisionist scholarship that has downplayed the significance of class in British society.

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Oxford University Press

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0191623555

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Elizabeth Wiskemann

Scholar, Journalist, Secret Agent

By: GEOFFREY. FIELD,Geoffrey Field

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Elizabeth Wiskemann

Scholar, Journalist, Secret Agent

By: GEOFFREY. FIELD,Geoffrey Field

This biography examines the life and career of scholar-journalist Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899-1971) from her youth and student years at Cambridge to her death by suicide. Disappointed in her hopes for an academic career, she reinvented herself as a journalist in Berlin, covering the overthrow of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism for The New Statesman, Nation, and numerous other newspapers and periodicals. Expelled from Germany, she settled in Prague and funded by Chatham House wrote the most important account of the Czech-German conflict and the Sudeten crisis, still a classic, followed by a detailed analysis of Nazi political and economic destabilization of the countries of eastern Europe. Her journalistic skills served her well in the war years when she worked as a secret agent in Switzerland, gathering intelligence, running agents into Axis-controlled Europe, and working closely with Allen Dulles, the O.S.S. chief in Bern. Postwar, Wiskemann returned to freelance journalism, focusing especially on Italy and Germany, while also writing several books, including the first scholarly study of the Hitler-Mussolini relationship and the first major account of the expulsion of 12 million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe. Although a prolific writer and highly regarded as a commentator on international affairs, she remained on the fringes of academia until 1958 when she was appointed Professor of International Relations at Edinburgh (the first woman to receive a Chair there in any discipline); she later became one of the first faculty recruited by the new Sussex University. In her later years she published several works of contemporary history, including Europe of the Dictators, 1919-45, widely used in schools and universities. Blinded in one eye by a botched surgery and increasingly anxious as her other eye deteriorated, she became terrified of going completely blind and ended her life. Aside from its intrinsic interest, Wiskemann's biography is illustrative of a whole cohort of women - graduates in the 1920s and 30s - who found ways to pursue their interests in international affairs and contemporary history. In this sense the book foregrounds the gendered experience of these pioneers whose professional lives often intersected through journalism, Chatham House, and service in the propaganda and intelligence agencies of the wartime state.

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Oxford University Press

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0192870629

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Easy Money

By: Geoffrey Field

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Easy Money

By: Geoffrey Field

In Easy Money, Geoffrey Field pens a twisting and highly detailed tale of drug-running and crime. Greed, violence, deceit, betrayal, and revenge. It's all packed in this story of criminal fiction. From the multiple perspectives of the English Bolton family, a young journalist, suspicious policemen, and shady government officials, we follow the interwoven paths and intentions that result from a South American drug lord's delivery of goods across country borders and over the seas. With impeccable imagery, fast-paced action, and accurately illustrated procedures, Field shows how a complicated international drug scheme can almost be pulled off successfully. Will a young couple move on past lies and danger? Will the fishing industry collapse and suffer even more after the drug raid? Can the criminals truly evade the law at every corner? Easy Money is a sure delight for all fans of criminal fiction.

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Austin Macauley

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1786296993

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