Useful Toil: Autobiographies Of Working People From The 1820s To The 1920s by John Burnett

Useful Toil: Autobiographies Of Working People From The 1820s To The 1920s

John Burnett

368 pages first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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'The twenty-seven autobiographies are in three sections, "The Labouring Classes" (the most vivid), "Domestic Servants" (not all like Upstairs Downstairs) and "Skilled Workers" (the most self-assured)... Without exception they are vivid, arresting ...

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