Everyday Life of the English Working Class - Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Carolyn Steedman is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. Her recent publications include Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age (2007) and Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England (2009). Klappentext Unique and fascinating account of English working-class life at the turn of the nineteenth century by celebrated historian Carolyn Steedman. Zusammenfassung A unique and fascinating account of English working-class life at the turn of the nineteenth century. Through Joseph Woolley and his thoughts on reading and drinking! sex! the law and social relations! leading historian Carolyn Steedman challenges traditional views of how the working man understood himself and society around him. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: what are they like?; 1. An introduction, shewing what kind of history this is, what it is like, and what it is not like; 2. Books do furnish a mind; 3. Family and friends; 4. Fears as loyons: drinking and fighting; 5. Sex and the single man; 6. Talking law; 7. Earthly powers; 8. Getting and spending; 9. Knitting and frames; 10. The knocking at the gate: General Ludd; 11. Some conclusions about writing everyday.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Steedman, Carolyn (University of Warwick) Steedman, Steedman Carolyn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107670297
• ISBN: 978-1-107-67029-7
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history