Capitalism Versus the Working Class of North London: 'I Could Be So Good For You' with John Medhurst

I Could Be So Good For You 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”.

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.

For good or ill, from the start of post-war affluence in the
1950s to the economic crash of 2008, north London’s working class
had a life experience like almost no other part of the British
working class, one not just of poverty, racism and exploitation,
but also of bold new housing schemes in the heart of the city, of
great opportunity and diversity and enjoyment. Its about time to
tell that story.

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