I Could Be So Good For Youis 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 Youtackles 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.
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