An everyday life of the English working class : : work, self and sociability in the early nineteenth century / / Carolyn Steedman.

"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...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages) :; illustrations, map
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  • 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.