Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation

During the late 1930s, the Lancashire cotton town of Bolton (Worktown) became the subject of a groundbreaking social experiment: the anthropological fieldwork of Tom Harrisson that was to develop into Mass-Observation. David Hall tells the story of Mass-Observations emergence from the social, intellectual and political climate of the 1930s; he looks at how Harrisson, his co-founders and his co-workers crossed the rigid class divide in pre-war Britain; and he assesses the enduring value of Mass Observations anthropology of ourselves.