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Working-Class Organisations and Popular Tourism, 1840-1970 (Hardcover)
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Working-Class Organisations and Popular Tourism, 1840-1970 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Popular Culture
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Today, many people take the idea of holidays for granted and regard
the provision of paid time off as a right. This book argues that
popular tourism has its roots in collective organisation and charts
the development of the working class holiday over two centuries.
Starting with the cult of St. Monday, the problem of absenteeism of
northern textile workers during Wakes Week, and culminating in the
cheap foreign package holiday of the late 20th century, this study
recounts how short, unpaid and often unauthorised periods of leave
from work became organised and legitimised through legislation,
culminating with the Holidays with Pay Act of 1938. Moreover, this
study finds that it was through collective activity by workers -
through savings clubs, friendly societies and union activity - that
the working class were originally able to take holidays, and it was
as a result of collective bargaining and campaigning that paid
holidays were eventually secured for all. This fascinating study
will be of use to students and scholars of social history, travel
and tourism and labour studies. -- .
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