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Useful Toil: Autobiographies Of Working People From The 1820s To The 1920s
by
John Burnett
'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 and thoroughly readable.'
-- The Times Educational Supplement
'An anonymous navvy in 1830 writes of his drinking and tramping; a f ...more
-- The Times Educational Supplement
'An anonymous navvy in 1830 writes of his drinking and tramping; a f ...more
Paperback
,
368 pages
Published
May 26th 1977
by Penguin Books Ltd
(first published December 31st 1974)
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