
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

This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let alone acquire...
