Useful Toil

Part 1 The Labouring Classes; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Anonymous Navvy*'Autobiography of a Navvy', Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. v, 1861-2.; Chapter 3 Farm Labourer*From unpublished autobiography., Tom Mullins; Chapter 4 Straw-Plait Worker*From 'A Little of my Life', London Mercury, edited by J. C. Squire, Vol. XIII, No. 76, November 1925-April 1926., Lucy Luck; Chapter 5 Weaver*From The diary of John Ward of Clitheroe, weaver, 1860-64. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year 1953. Vol. 105, 1954, pp. 161 et seq., John Ward (O'neil); Chapter 6 Sweet-Boiler*From 'Before my Time', Granada Television interview, 1963., William Luby; Chapter 7 Coal-Miner*Unpublished autobiography., Thomas Jordan; Chapter 8 Coal-Miner*From These Poor Hands. The Autobiography of a Miner working in South Wales, Gollancz, 1939., B. L. Coombes; Chapter 9 Shop Assistant*From One Woman's Story, unpublished autobiography., Winifred Griffiths; Chapter 10 Munitions-Factory Worker*Unpublished autobiographical extract., Rosina Whyatt; Part 2 Domestic Servants; Chapter 11 Introduction; Chapter 12 Footman*From Diary of William Tayler, Footman, 1837, edited by Dorothy Wise, with notes by Ann Cox-Johnson, St Marylebone Society Publications Group, 1962. William Tayler's Diary is the property of Mr Richard Willoughby Bartlett, and the editor, Dorothy Wise, acknowledges his permission to reproduce., William Tayler; Chapter 13 House-Steward*From From Hall-Boy to House-Steward, Edward Arnold & Co., 1925., Lanceley William; Chapter 14 Chef*From Royal Chef. Recollections of Life in Royal Households from Queen Victoria to Queen Mary, as told to Joan Powe, William Kimber, 1954 and 1974., Gabriel Tschumi; Chapter 15 Butler*'A Butler's View of Man-Service', The Nineteenth Century: a Monthly Review, January-June 1892, Vol. XXXI, 1892., John Robinson; Chapter 16 Page-Boy*The extract, which describes his life as a page-boy at the Almacks Bridge Club, London, in 1904, is from