An Everyday Life of the English Working Class

Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

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Carolyn Steedman

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Paperback / softback

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This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and Clifton's magistrate records, Carolyn Steedman gives us a unique and fascinating account of working-class living and loving, and getting and spending. Through Woolley and his thoughts on reading and drinking, sex, the law and social relations, she challenges traditional accounts which she argues have overstated the importance of work to the working man's understanding of himself, as a creature of time, place and society. She shows instead that, for men like Woolley, law and fiction were just as critical as work in framing everyday life.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date NZ

December 5th, 2013

Author

Carolyn Steedman

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

2 Tables, black and white; 8 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

312

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9781107670297

Product ID

21373421

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