An everyday life of the English working class : work, self and sociability in the early nineteenth century / Carolyn Steedman.
2013
HD8389 .S74 2013
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Title
An everyday life of the English working class : work, self and sociability in the early nineteenth century / Carolyn Steedman.
Author
Steedman, Carolyn.
ISBN
9781107046214
9781107670297
9781107504134 (electronic book)
9781107670297
9781107504134 (electronic book)
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations
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HD8389 .S74 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.5/62094209034
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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.