The Working Class at Home, 17901940 by Joseph Harley
These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let alone acquire the comforts associated with middle-class domestic space.“The Working Class at Home 1790-1940, uncovers hidden aspects of the domestic lives of the working-class in the long nineteenth century... The Working Class at Home both combines and builds upon these scopes and sources it reminds us the diversity of working class people … . Bearing in mind the complications of uncovering authentic histories of working-class people but navigated so well in this book ... .” (Tanya Hawkes, The Charles Lamb Bulletin, charleslambsociety.com Issue 176, Winter, 2022)
Vicky Holmes is Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK in association with the Centre for Studies of Home. Her Palgrave Pivot, In Bed with the Victorians: The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage, was published in 2017.
Joseph Harley is Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He has recently published Norfolk Pauper Inventories, c.1690-1834 (2020) and has articles in various journals including Agricultural History Review, Historical Journal and Social History.
Laika Nevalainen is a historian of everyday life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Finland.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9783030892753 |
| ISBN 10 | 3030892751 |
| Title | The Working Class at Home, 17901940 |
| Author | Joseph Harley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Year published | 2023-02-19 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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