Social conditions, status and community, 1860-c. 1920 / edited by Keith Laybourn.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-234) and index.

Introduction / Keith Laybourn -- 1. Guild of Help and the community response to poverty, 1904--c. 1914 / Keith Laybourn -- 2. Guilded help? / Fiona Cushlow -- 3. Terrible scourge of consumption is amongst us : the Guild of Help, voluntarism and the problem of tuberculosis in Edwardian Bolton / Stuart Robertson -- 4. Health and environment in late Victorian and Edwardian Huddersfield / Becky Bryson -- 5. 1908 Old Age Pensions Act : the Poor Law in a new disguise? / Margaret Jones -- 6. Policing and the community : late twentieth-century myths and late nineteenth-century realities / David Taylor -- 7. One could literally have walked on the heads of the people congregated there : sport, the town and identity / Jack Williams -- 8. Masculine status and working-class culture in the Cleveland ironstone mining communities, 1850-1881 / Tony Nicholson -- 9. Measuring the distance : D.H. Lawrence, Raymond Williams and the quest for community / Peter Gurney -- 10. Working men, old Chartists and the Contagious Diseases Acts / Bertrand Taithe.