The working class at home, 1790-1940 /

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Imprint:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022] ©2022
Description:	1 online resource () : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Working class -- Dwellings -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Social conditions. Working class -- Dwellings. Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Great Britain.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12711916

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Other authors / contributors:	Harley, Joseph, editor. Holmes, Vicky, editor. Nevalainen, Laika, editor.
ISBN:	9783030892739 3030892735 9783030892722 3030892727
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Working class at home, 1790-1940. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 9783030892722
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-030-89273-9

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: The Working Class at Home, 1790-1940
Part I: The Material Home
2. I can barely provide the common necessaries of life: Material Wealth over the Life-cycle of the English poor, 1790-1834
3. Politicising the English Working-Class Home, c.1790-1820
4. Pulling Back the Covers: Uncovering Beds in the Victorian Working-Class Home
Part II: The Emotional and the Exterior Home
5. Spaces of Girlhood: Autobiographical Recollections of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Working-Class Homes
6. Songbirds in East London Homes, from Henry Mayhew to Charles Booth
7. Chickens, ducks, rabbits, and me dads geraniums: The Use and Meanings of Yards, Gardens and Other Outside Spaces of Urban Working-Class Homes, 18901930
Part III: Home beyond Home
8. Diligence and Dissipation: The Maid Servants Bed Chamber in the Late Eighteenth Century
9. Pauper Lunatics at Home in the Asylum, 1845-1906
10. Flexible, Portable and Communal Domesticity: Everyday Domestic Practices of Finnish Sailors and Logging Workers, c. 1880s to 1930s. .

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