Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): plays and music hall acts seen by McShane and his future wife (8-9); socialists’ disagreement with temperance campaigners on the cause of poverty (11-12); emphasis of British Socialist Party leaders Henry Hyndman and Harry Quelch on the importance of parliamentary elections as opposed to industrial action and class struggle (14-15); McShane’s belief in a combination of parliamentary and industrial action (16-17); British Socialist Party’s belief in industrial, as opposed to craft, unions (16-17); inadequate poor relief for old people before First World War (18-20); interdependence of Glasgow tenement dwellers leading to desire to maintain good reputation with neighbours (19-20); nature of tenement accommodation (20); metal-working and baking in tenement back courts (20-21); low prices of basic foodstuffs and coal (22); boat trips to Rothesay (24); activities during New Year holiday (25-26); children’s street and indoor games (26-27); comparative lack of birthday and Christmas celebrations (27).
28 pages
Open
Recording at 842/21.
English
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