Fish and Chips, and the British Working Class, 1870-1940

by John K. Walton

Book Overview

Unlike other institutions of central importance to working-class life, the fish-and-chip trade has not yet been rescued from what the author of this book regards as the massive condescension of posterity. In attempting to begin this process, he traces the origins of what was by 1914 an important national industry, setting the economic, social and political context of the trade, charting its spread and analyzing its sources and methods of supply. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071852120X
• ISBN13: 9780718521202
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Leicester University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"