An everyday life of the English working class : work, self and sociability in the early nineteenth century /
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 Clifto...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
