The Working Class at Home, 1790-1940

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

6 Songbirds in East London Homes, from Henry Mayhew to Charles Booth

7 Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, and Me Dad's Geraniums: The Use and Meanings of Yards, Gardens and Other Outside Spaces of Urban Working-class Homes, 1890-1930

Part III Home Beyond Home

8 Diligence and Dissipation: The Maid Servant's 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