Hard Lines: Voices from Deep Within a Recession
- ISBN-10
- 0719053625
- ISBN-13
- 9780719053627
- Series
- Hard Lines
- Category
- England, Northern
- Pages
- 242
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Author
- Geoffrey Beattie
Description
Centering on the city of Sheffield, looks at the human consequences in northern England of the negative de-industrialization that resulted from the economic and social policies of the ruling Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s and early 1990s. Work, no work, moving up, moving down, crime and vice, being somebody, and distractions are the windows. Well illustrated. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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