I Could Be So Good for You av John Medhurst

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<b><i><b>I Could Be So Good For You</b></i><b>is a unique portrait of north London''s working class from the 1950s to the 21st century, and how it lived, struggled, survived and sometimes thrived.</b></b><br><br><i><b>I Could Be So Good For You</b></i><b>tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no "real" working class in comparison to a more "authentic" working class in a place called "the North".</b><br><br>In doing so it offers a history and a portrait of north London''s working class from the 1950s to the 21st century, based on a wide and original range of sources including personal memoirs, autobiographies, collected oral histories and new interviews conducted by the author. The result is an important social history and a rich panorama of working-class life — its struggles, work, celebrations, events, triumphs, tragedies and the occasional nice little earner. <br><br>For good or ill, from the start of pos