Useful Toil

John Burnett

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 v, 1861–2.; Chapter 3 Farm Labourer*From unpublished autobiography., Tom Mullins; Chapter 4 Straw-Plait Worker*From ‘A Little of my Life’, London Mercury, edited by J. C. Squire, Vol.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Chapter 6 Sweet-Boiler*From ‘Before my Time’, Granada Television interview, 1963., William Luby; Chapter 7 Coal-Miner*Unpublished autobiography., Thomas Jordan; Chapter 8 Coal-Miner*From These Poor Hands.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of a Miner working in South Wales, Gollancz, 1939., B. L. Coombes; Chapter 9 Shop Assistant*From One Woman’s Story, unpublished autobiography., Winifred Griffiths; Chapter 10 Munitions-Factory Worker*Unpublished autobiographical extract., Rosina Whyatt; Part 2 Domestic Servants; Chapter 11 Introduction; Chapter 12 Footman*From Diary of William Tayler, Footman, 1837,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