The Working Class At Home 1790 1940

Author : Joseph Harley,Vicky Holmes,Laika Nevalainen
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 3030892727

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The Working Class at Home, 1790–1940 by Joseph Harley,Vicky Holmes,Laika Nevalainen Pdf

This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. 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 concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted a picture of severe deprivation, of rooms that were both cramped yet bare at the same time, and disease-ridden spaces from which their subjects required rescue. It is an image which is not only inadequate, but which also robs working-class people of their agency in creating domestic spaces which allowed for the expression of personal and familial feeling. Bringing together emerging scholars who challenge these ideas and using a range of innovative sources and approaches, this edited collection presents a new understanding of working-class homes.

Author : Joseph Harley,Vicky Holmes,Laika Nevalainen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030892743

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The Working Class at Home, 1790-1940 by Joseph Harley,Vicky Holmes,Laika Nevalainen Pdf

This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. 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 concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted a picture of severe deprivation, of rooms that were both cramped yet bare at the same time, and disease-ridden spaces from which their subjects required rescue. It is an image which is not only inadequate, but which also robs working-class people of their agency in creating domestic spaces which allowed for the expression of personal and familial feeling. Bringing together emerging scholars who challenge these ideas and using a range of innovative sources and approaches, this edited collection presents a new understanding of working-class homes. 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.

Author : Joseph Harley,Vicky Holmes,Laika Nevalainen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030892739

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The Working Class at Home, 1790–1940 by Joseph Harley,Vicky Holmes,Laika Nevalainen Pdf

This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. 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 concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted a picture of severe deprivation, of rooms that were both cramped yet bare at the same time, and disease-ridden spaces from which their subjects required rescue. It is an image which is not only inadequate, but which also robs working-class people of their agency in creating domestic spaces which allowed for the expression of personal and familial feeling. Bringing together emerging scholars who challenge these ideas and using a range of innovative sources and approaches, this edited collection presents a new understanding of working-class homes.

Author : Katie Barclay,Elaine Chalus,Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000839203

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The Routledge History of Loneliness by Katie Barclay,Elaine Chalus,Deborah Simonton Pdf

The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development across cultures from the seventeenth century to the present. Bringing together thirty scholars from various disciplines, including history, anthropology, philosophy, literature and art history, the volume considers how loneliness was represented in art and literature, conceptualised by philosophers and writers and described by people in their personal narratives. It considers loneliness as a feeling so often defined in contrast to sociability and affective connections, particularly attending to loneliness in relation to the family, household and community. Acknowledging that loneliness is a relatively novel term in English, the book explores its precedents in ideas about solitude, melancholy and nostalgia, as well as how it might be considered in cross-cultural perspectives. With wide appeal to students and researchers in a variety of subjects, including the history of emotions, social sciences and literature, this volume brings a critical historical perspective to an emotion with contemporary significance.

Author : Alison C. Pedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350275348

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Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England by Alison C. Pedley Pdf

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor. The majority of these patients had murdered, or attempted to murder, their own children but were not necessarily condemned as incurably evil by medical and legal authorities, nor by general society. Alison C. Pedley explores how insanity gave the Victorians an acceptable explanation for these dreadful crimes, and as a result, how admission to a dedicated asylum was viewed as the safest and most human solution for the 'madwomen' as well as for society as a whole. Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England considers the experiences, treatments and regimes women underwent in an attempt to redeem and rehabilitate them, and return them to into a patriarchal society. It shows how society's views of the institutions and insanity were not necessarily negative or coloured by fear and revulsion, and highlights the changes in attitudes to female criminal lunacy in the second half of the 19th century. Through extensive and detailed research into the three asylums' archives and in legal, governmental, press and genealogical records, this book sheds new light on the views of the patients themselves, and contributes to the historiography of Victorian criminal lunatic asylums, conceptualising them as places of recovery, rehabilitation and restitution.

Author : Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452964089

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How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940 by Thomas C. Hubka Pdf

The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes At the turn of the nineteenth century, the average American family still lived by kerosene light, ate in the kitchen, and used an outhouse. By 1940, electric lights, dining rooms, and bathrooms were the norm as the traditional working-class home was fast becoming modern—a fact largely missing from the story of domestic innovation and improvement in twentieth-century America, where such benefits seem to count primarily among the upper classes and the post–World War II denizens of suburbia. Examining the physical evidence of America’s working-class houses, Thomas C. Hubka revises our understanding of how widespread domestic improvement transformed the lives of Americans in the modern era. His work, focused on the broad central portion of the housing population, recalibrates longstanding ideas about the nature and development of the “middle class” and its new measure of improvement, “standards of living.” In How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940, Hubka analyzes a period when millions of average Americans saw accelerated improvement in their housing and domestic conditions. These improvements were intertwined with the acquisition of entirely new mechanical conveniences, new types of rooms and patterns of domestic life, and such innovations—from public utilities and kitchen appliances to remodeled and multi-unit housing—are at the center of the story Hubka tells. It is a narrative, amply illustrated and finely detailed, that traces changes in household hygiene, sociability, and privacy practices that launched large portions of the working classes into the middle class—and that, in Hubka’s telling, reconfigures and enriches the standard account of the domestic transformation of the American home.

Author : Goncalo C. Cardoso,Ricardo Jorge Lopes,Paulo Gama Mota
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780443153518

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The Canary by Goncalo C. Cardoso,Ricardo Jorge Lopes,Paulo Gama Mota Pdf

The Canary: Natural History, Science and Cultural Significance covers the ecology, evolution and conservation of the canary and related species, along with the history and cultural significance of the domestic canary worldwide and various scientific disciplines in which canaries have played a key role as a model species. The book synthesizes the multiple ways in which the canary and its relatives have been, and continue to be, an important scientific model in diverse areas and have influenced human culture. Each chapter is written by international experts in areas such as biogeography, animal behavior, evolutionary ecology, conservation, neurobiology, genetics, or ethnology. In covering this eclectic array of topics, while always focusing on the canary and its close relatives, this book uses the immense appeal of the canary as a vehicle to present notions of ecology, evolution, biodiversity conservation, and so on, to a wide audience. Details all aspects of Crithagra and Serinus canaries as well as relatives like crossbills Structured to begin with more accessible topics like natural history, domestication, and conservation Closes with discussions of more specialized topics like evolution, neurobiology, behavior and genomics

Author : Gwendolyn Wright
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983-04-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262730642

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Building the Dream by Gwendolyn Wright Pdf

The evolution of housing in America. This book is concerned essentially with the model of domestic environment in this country, as it has evolved from colonial architecture through current urban projects. Beginning with Puritan townscape, topics include urban row housing, Big House and slave quarters, factory housing, rural cottages, Victorian suburbs, urban tenements, apartment life, bungalows, company towns, planned residential communities, public housing for the poor, suburban sprawl.

Author : Lionel Frost
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0868402680

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The New Urban Frontier by Lionel Frost Pdf

Explores changes in city density by comparing Melbourne, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Auckland and other new frontier cities. Includes a new interpretation of the effect of development on problems faced by frontier cities, and a detailed bibliography. The author lectures on economics and economic history at La Trobe University.

Author : Ying Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135860318

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Masculinity and the English Working Class by Ying Lee Pdf

This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes. The book also maps the relationship between two trends: the early nineteenth-century efflorescence of published working-class autobiographies (in which working men construct their identities for a broad readership); and a contemporaneous surge of public interest in "the lower orders" that finds reflection in the depiction of working-class characters in popular novels by middle-class authors. The book mimics this point of convergence by pairing three working-class autobiographies with three middle-class novels. Each chapter focuses on a particular type of work: domestic service, manual (not artisanal) labour, and literary labour (and the opportunities it offers for social advancement). Ying considers the specific ways in which classed and gendered consciousness emerges autobiographically and its significance in the writing of working-class subjectivity for public consumption. Then mainstream novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Kingsley are re-read from the perspective of these autobiographical pressure points.

Author : Sarah W. Walden
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780822983125

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Tasteful Domesticity by Sarah W. Walden Pdf

Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well as physical constraints, and thus serves as a bridge between the contested space of the self and the body, particularly for women in the nineteenth century. Cookbooks represent important contact zones of social philosophies, cultural beliefs, and rhetorical traditions, and through their rhetoric, we witness women’s roles as republican mothers, sentimental evangelists, wartime fundraisers, home economists, and social reformers. Beginning in the early republic and tracing the cookbook through the publishing boom of the nineteenth century, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Progressive era, and rising racial tensions of the early twentieth century, Sarah W. Walden examines the role of taste as an evolving rhetorical strategy that allowed diverse women to engage in public discourse through published domestic texts.

Author : Allen F. Davis,Mark H. Haller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216709

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The Peoples of Philadelphia by Allen F. Davis,Mark H. Haller Pdf

Although much has been written about elite Philadelphians, only in recent decades have historians paid attention to the Jews and working-class blacks, the immigrant Irish, Italians, and Poles who settled in the city and gave such sections as Moyamensing, Southwark, South Philadelphia, and Kensington their vitality. In this classic of social and ethnic history, the authors draw on census schedules, court records, city directories, and tax records as well as newspaper files and other sources to give a picture of the ways in which these less-privileged groups of Philadelphians lived. What emerges is a picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Civil service
ISBN : UCAL:B3606013

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Pdf

Author : Daniel M. Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080872834

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Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain by Daniel M. Jackson Pdf

This book shows that from the start of the Third Home Rule Bill crisis, there was in Britain considerable popular interest in the Irish issue, and that the Curragh army mutiny of 1914 was not an isolated incident, but part of a wider popular movement. A well-orchestrated campaign of agitation led by Unionist leaders Sir Edward Carson and Andrew Bonar Law had so exploited patriotic and sectarian resentment at the prospect of Irish Home Rule that by 1914 the United Kingdom was on the verge of civil war. The book locates this movement at the end of a 'long nineteenth century', where communal and confessional identities were still as powerful as class, and where native hostility to Catholicism and Irish migration still prevailed.

Author : Anne Montenach,Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350078284

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A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment by Anne Montenach,Deborah Simonton Pdf

Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities The Enlightenment led to revised ideas about work together with new social attitudes toward work and workers. Coupled with dynamism in the economy, and the rise of the middling orders, work was more frequently perceived positively, as a commodity and as a source of social respectability. This volume explores the cultural implications of the transition from older systems based on privilege, control and embedded practices to a more open society increasingly based on merit and ability. It examines how guild controls broke down and political and commercial systems loosened. It also considers the theoretical justifications that brought new binding ideas, such as the strengthening of ideology on home, domesticity for the female, and work and politics for the male. North America embodied the extremes of these transitions with free workers able to make their way in a society based on ability and initiative while solidifying the ravages of the slavery system. A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.