Useful Toil : Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415103991
ISBN-13
9780415103992
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 30th, 1994
Print length
400 Pages
Weight
534 grams
Dimensions
21.40 x 14.10 x 2.50 cms
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Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people.
Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary'' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values and beliefs.
Burnett''s broad and sympathetic introductions focus and contextualise the wealth of material. These stories provide the antithesis of `great name'' history, yet they constantly touch on human experiences that are timeless and universal.
Burnett''s broad and sympathetic introductions focus and contextualise the wealth of material. These stories provide the antithesis of `great name'' history, yet they constantly touch on human experiences that are timeless and universal.
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