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In this companion volume to ""Useful Toil"", John Burnett has drawn extensively on over 800 previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of 19-century working-class life. Besides offering rare insights into the developing child's world of dreams, hopes and fears, they reflect a crucial period in the evolution of a family tradition; a time when, to counteract the brutalizing pressures of urbanization and industrialization, ordinary people turned to each other for support. Children have seldom had a voice in history: individual to the last, these writers and their experiences take their place as part of the essential fabric of our past. Burnett has also plublished ""Plenty and Want: A Social History of Diet in England From 1815 to the Present"" (Routledge); ""A History of the Cost of Living (1969); ""The Challenge of the Nineteenth Century"" (1970); ""Useful Toil"" (1974); ""Destiny Obscure"" (1982); and ""Idle Hands: The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990"" (Routledge).

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[of Destiny Obscure and Useful Toil] `They are handy and accessible collections of extracts from a particular group pf primary sources...' - Times Literary Supplement `Both provide a wealth of primary source material for historians of all ages; both are wonderful incentives to contemporary autobiographical writing.' - Times Educational Supplement

[of Destiny Obscure and Useful Toil] `They are handy and accessible collections of extracts from a particular group pf primary sources...' - Times Literary Supplement `Both provide a wealth of primary source material for historians of all ages; both are wonderful incentives to contemporary autobiographical writing.' - Times Educational Supplement

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