This four volume primary resource collection is the most comprehensive of its kind and includes a multitude of sources that allows the user to chart the squalor, the noise, the conflict, the aspiration and the diversity of the working-class experience up to the outbreak of the First World War.

Andrew August

Introduction, I. Working Conditions, II. Skill, Gender and Age Distinctions, III. Worker Organization 'A Journeyman Bootmaker', Editorial Notes, Silent Corrections