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The Rag Trade - The People Who Made Our Clothes (Paperback)
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The Rag Trade - The People Who Made Our Clothes (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 190
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This book is about people who worked in the rag trade in the
nineteenth century - dressmakers and milliners, tailors, two
shoemakers, a framework knitter, a family of corset manufacturers
and a lace maker. It deals with the trades and their products, but
also with the day-to-day lives of the protagonists, both at work
and at home. Working people have always made up the majority of the
population and their biographies can be just as complex and
interesting as those of the rich and famous. Featuring biographies
of eleven different nineteenth-century clothing workers, Pam Inder
explores a range of workers with a variety of backgrounds who
worked for different sorts of clientele and did a variety of jobs.
They have been chosen because records survive to illuminate their
lives, but also because they have a story to tell. They are not
necessarily typical, but nor are they atypical; aspects of their
lives reflect experiences shared by many others in the same lines
of work - be it difficult clients, financial problems, trouble with
the law or the effects of grinding poverty. Some were successful,
others were not - the dividing line between the two was a narrow
one and often depended on luck as much as on judgement.
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