TY - BOOK ID - 61522748 TI - Bread winner : an intimate history of the Victorian economy PY - 2020 SN - 9780300230062 0300230060 PB - New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Working class families KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Working class families - Great Britain - History - 19th century KW - Great Britain - Social conditions - 19th century KW - Great Britain - Economic conditions - 19th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61522748 AB - Nineteenth century Britain saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's wealth. Unable to earn a sufficient income themselves, working-class women were reliant on the 'breadwinner wage' of their husbands. When income failed, or was denied or squandered by errant men, families could be plunged into desperate poverty from which there was no escape. Emma Griffin unlocks the homes of Victorian England to examine the lives - and finances - of the people who lived there. Drawing on over 600 working-class autobiographies, including more than 200 written by women, Bread Winner changes our understanding of daily life in Victorian Britain. ER -