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An Everyday Life of the English Working Class - Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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An Everyday Life of the English Working Class - Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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