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Useful Toil - Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Useful Toil - Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people
of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven
telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working
people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition
workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters
and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak
in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though
they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus
reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values
and beliefs. Burnett's broad and sympathetic introductions focus
and contextualise the wealth of material. These stories provide the
antithesis of `great name' history, yet they constantly touch on
human experiences that are timeless and universal.
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