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THIS report shows clearly that Mass-Observation should be considered as a challenge to journalism rather than to the social sciences. What it offers is a comprehensive description of present-day industrial life in much of its concrete detail. Considered as a scientific study, its superficiality and subjectivity could not be excused on the ground of its extensive range. As a kind of expanded reporting, on the other hand, it develops one of the suggested functions of journalism much beyond what the Press has so far achieved.
An Inquiry into British War Production
Part 1: People in Production. An Advertising Service Guild Report prepared by Mass-Observation. (Bulletin of the Advertising Service Guild, Change No. 3.) Pp. 410. (London: John Murray, 1942.) 10s. net.
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An Inquiry into British War Production. Nature 149, 711–712 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149711a0
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