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Article: Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900-1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2004
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Alan Fowler. Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900-1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century. Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xv, 236. $84.95. ISBN 0-7546-0116-1.
Regional history, we all know, runs the risk both of narrowness and of nostalgia. The danger is all the greater, one would think, when a scholar has spent many years of his life studying an industry that reached its zenith a century or so ago, only to decline calamitously in the years that followed. Indeed, according to Alan Fowler, all that was left of Lancashire cotton by the 1980s was a heritage movement. "But what a heritage," he enthuses. "Lancashire created its own ...