Our kind of town

Title

Our kind of town

Genre

Interview; Documentary

TX Date

12 Oct 1980

Year of production

1980

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Duration

00:48:13

Description

Keith Howell presents this week’s edition of Our Kind of Town. In the first part University of Bristol lecturer, Kenneth Hudson, talks about his new book, Where We Used to Work and what he discovered about past working conditions and attitudes. In the second half bottle recycler Harry Marks(?) talks at his yard in Bow, London about how the family business was started by his father and how the industry has changed.

Contributors

Keith Howell; Kenneth Hudson; Harry Marks(?)

Keywords

Books; Authors; Deaths; London; Trade unions; Industry; Money; Newspapers; Wages; Postmen; Working conditions; British; Natural resources; BBC; Women; Broadcasting; Small business; Aeroplanes; History; First World War (1914-1918); Family; Recycling; Reminiscence; Plastics; Journalists; Occupations; Photographs; Personnel; Social change; Aircraft engineering; Wine industry; Academics; Social behaviour; Bow; Social alienation; Furniture industry; Recycling facilities; Glass; Bottle industry; Service industries; Furniture trade; Work attitudes; Where We Used to Work; Eyre and Spottiswoode; Occupational sociology

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