| Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s Contributor(s): Burnett, Proffessor John (Author), Burnett, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415103991 ISBN-13: 9780415103992 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1994 Annotation: "Useful Toil" engages freshly and directly with the "ordinary" people of the 19th century. John Burnett has assembled 27 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. Burnett's broad and sympathetic introductions focus and contextualize 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - History - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 93039961 |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 5.64" W x 8.64" (1.25 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |