My Life as Farmer's Boy, Factory Lad, Teacher and Preacher
Author: Adam Rushton
Publisher: Gale and the British Library
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13:
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Factory Lives
Author: James R. Simmons, Jr
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2007-04-10
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781551112725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFactory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown’s A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodd’s A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd; Ellen Johnston’s “Autobiography”; and James Myles’s Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy. This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works. Appendices include contemporary responses to the autobiographies, debates on factory legislation, transcripts of testimony given before parliamentary committees on child labour, and excerpts from literary works on factory life by Harriet Martineau, Frances Trollope, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others.
The Erosion of Childhood
Author: Lionel Rose
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1134989008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Bread Winner
Author: Emma Griffin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-06-09
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0300230060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era--and struggled to survive despite increasing national prosperity "A powerful story of social realities, pressures, and the fracturing of traditional structures."--Ruth Goodman, Wall Street Journal "Deeply researched and sensitive."--Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph, "Best History Books of 2020" Nineteenth century Britain saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's wealth. Unable to earn a sufficient income themselves, working-class women were reliant on the 'breadwinner wage' of their husbands. When income failed, or was denied or squandered by errant men, families could be plunged into desperate poverty from which there was no escape. Emma Griffin unlocks the homes of Victorian England to examine the lives - and finances - of the people who lived there. Drawing on over 600 working-class autobiographies, including more than 200 written by women, Bread Winner changes our understanding of daily life in Victorian Britain.
Disciplines of Faith
Author: James Obelkevich
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 1136820795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Liberty's Dawn
Author: Emma Griffin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-06-11
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0300151802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVThis remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom./divDIV /divDIVThis rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of best-selling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers./div
Constructing Industrial Pasts
Author: Stefan Berger
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-09-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1789202914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the 1960s, nations across the “developed world” have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization. In regions in which previously dominant industries faced crises or have disappeared altogether, industrial heritage offers a fascinating window into the phenomenon’s cultural dimensions. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches and straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle.
Opening The Nursery Door
Author: Mary Hilton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1135105758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpening the Nursery Door is a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, educationalists and archivists as it has opened up a range of questions about the nature of childhood within English cultural life over three centuries: the texts written and read to children, the multifarious ways childhood has been considered, shaped and schooled through literacy practices, and the hitherto ignored role of women educators in early childhood across all classes.
Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 1048
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Happiness of the British Working Class
Author: Jamie L. Bronstein
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2023-01-10
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1503633853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor working-class life writers in nineteenth century Britain, happiness was a multifaceted emotion: a concept that could describe experiences of hedonic pleasure, foster and deepen social relationships, drive individuals to self-improvement, and lead them to look back over their lives and evaluate whether they were well-lived. However, not all working-class autobiographers shared the same concepts or valorizations of happiness, as variables such as geography, gender, political affiliation, and social and economic mobility often influenced the way they defined and experienced their emotional lives. The Happiness of the British Working Class employs and analyzes over 350 autobiographies of individuals in England, Scotland, and Ireland to explore the sources of happiness of British working people born before 1870. Drawing from careful examinations of their personal narratives, Jamie L. Bronstein investigates the ways in which working people thought about the good life as seen through their experiences with family and friends, rewarding work, interaction with the natural world, science and creativity, political causes and religious commitments, and physical and economic struggles. Informed by the history of emotions and the philosophical and social-scientific literature on happiness, this book reflects broadly on the industrial-era working-class experience in an era of immense social and economic change.
