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High and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002 are thoroughly explored in this new edition of aclassic text. 'Something of a tour de force... Without serious distortion or omission he moves dexterously through a wide variety of sources, ranging from poetry through film and novels to opinion polls.. it is astonishing how much he gets in' Times Educational Supplement 'An enjoyable, readable, usable achievement which leads the field' John Vincent, Sunday Times

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. vii)
• Introduction: 'How It Was', 'What Went Wrong?', or 'From Consensus to Divided Society and Half-way Back?' (p. ix)
• Part 1 Social Consensus 1945-57
• 1 British Journey (p. 3)
• 2 That Topic All-Absorbing: Class (p. 17)
• 3 The Welfare State (p. 27)
• 4 Hearth, Home, and Street Corner (p. 40)
• 5 The Culture of Austerity (p. 52)
• 6 Consensus Re-examined (p. 73)
• Part 2 Roads to Freedom 1958-73
• 7 Affluence, Appliances, and Work (p. 85)
• 8 Critiques, Boutiques, and Pop (p. 94)
• 9 The End of Victorianism (p. 113)
• 10 Social Structure and Social Strains (p. 124)
• 11 False Optimism (p. 141)
• Part 3 The Time of Troubles 1973-82
• 12 Gloom on the Man-Made Island 1973-80 (p. 151)
• 13 Class, Race, and Nationalism (p. 166)
• 14 Living Standards (p. 187)
• 15 'Gimme a Man After Midnight' (p. 202)
• 16 Tolerance and Confrontation (p. 213)
• 17 The Winter of Discontent and the Summer of the Fire Bombs (p. 227)
• Part 4 Privatization, Polarization and IT 1982-9
• 18 The Processes of Change (p. 235)
• 19 The Geography of 'Post-Industrialization': Mainland Britain and Northern Ireland (p. 243)
• 20 The 'Enterprise Economy' (p. 261)
• 21 Workers, Yuppies and Hooligans (p. 275)
• 22 Social Policy and Social Life (p. 298)
• 23 The Hallmark of a Civilization: 'An Ace Caff with Quite a Nice Museum Attached' (p. 316)
• Part 5 A Society at Odds with Itself 1989-97
• 24 Divisive Bequests: Cultural and Political (p. 335)
• 25 Social Reform with a Sting (p. 358)
• 26 Class, Race, Identity (p. 382)
• Part 6 A Faltering Return Towards Consensus? 1997-2002
• 27 The Odd Shape of the Nation (p. 419)
• 28 Service with a Scowl (p. 436)
• 29 The Pleasures and Pains of Life (p. 453)
• Notes on Sources and Guide to Further Reading (p. 469)
• Index (p. 473)