I Could Be So Good for You: A Portrait of the North London Working Class (Medhurst John)(Paperback)

I Could Be So Good For You 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. 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
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