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This four-volume collection explores the idea that, for Victorians and Edwardians, the meanings attached to work and the meanings attached to being without work were always dependent upon each other, knotted together by the imperative for a man to desire employment and be willing to work. Mechanization and the decline of old trades, the creation of single-industry cities and towns, the migration... Read more
Volume 1: The Meanings of Work
Volume 2: Unemployed before Unemployment
Volume 3: The Meanings of Unemployment
Volume 4: Working for Unemployment
Biography
Marjorie Levine-Clark is Professor of History at University of Colorado Denver, USA
