Apart from the aggressively un-academic title (the subtitle was Growing Up in the Working-Class City), the book was a curious mix of a story of youth work and a radical Marxist critique of the youth condition. Its authors were Dave Robins and Phil Cohen. Phil Cohen is probably the better-known name, for he subsequently pursued a career as a radical academic in youth studies. Dave Robins' name may be less well known, yet he had an equally significant, if...