Round About a Pound a Week.: 7 - Brossura

Reeves, Pember

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0860680665 ISBN 13: 9780860680666

Casa editrice: Virago Pr, 1979

Riassunto

From 1909 to 1913, undaunted by the proposition that a 'bi-weekly visit to Lambeth is like a plunge into Hades', the Fabian Women's Group recorded the daily budgets of thirty families there. In 1913 they published this unique record in Round About a Pound a Week. We learn about family life, births, marriages and deaths; of grinding work carried out on a diet of little more than bread, jam and margarine. We learn how they coped with damp, vermin and bedbugs; how they slept - four to a bed, in banana crates; how they washed, cooked, cleaned, scrimped for furniture and clothes, saved for all too frequent burials...This classic text is one of the most important and vivid historical portraits of the daily life of working people in the early part of the twentieth century.

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Recensione

This book might have been joyless but isn't ... a classic study (Penelope Fitzgerald )

Classic, graphic account of the needy before the first world war (DAILY EXPRESS )

Fascinating ... I shall think of this book next time I'm stuck in a tesco checkout queue (DAILY MAIL )

As engrossing and necessary a read now as it was then. (SCOTSMAN )

Descrizione del libro

* This classic text portrays the daily life of working people before the first world war

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Virago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1979
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0860680665
• ISBN 13: 9780860680666
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile