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An everyday life of the English working class : work, self and sociability in the early nineteenth century

Steedman, Carolyn

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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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Woolley, Joseph Diaries. / Working class Great Britain History 19th century. / Working class Great Britain Social conditions 19th century. / HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. / Nottingham (England) Social conditions 19th century. / Great Britain History 1800-1837.
• ISBN: 9781107046214, 1107046211, 9781107670297, 1107670292

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HD8389.S74 2013	1	BOOK	BUSINESS