Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918The history of the British working class has until recently been written with a focus on the workplace or on such male organizations as clubs, unions or national political parties. This study of mothers in London before World War I stresses the distinctiveness of their experiences from those of other classes, and of the post World War I period, and demonstrates the ways in which mothers and their domestic choices were essential to the survival and cultural perpetuation of the working classes. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
Marriage | 56 |
Having Babies | 91 |
Being a Mother | 129 |
Children Helping and Working | 148 |
Rediscovering Motherhood | 222 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 291 |
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