Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic
Author : Timothy Travers
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9781315629056
Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic
Author : Tim Travers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1317242874
Book Description
Samuel Smiles is best known for his book Self Help (1859), which many have assumed to be an encouragement to social and financial success. However, Smiles actually argued against the single-minded pursuit of success, and in favour of the protean formation of character as the ultimate goal of life. First published in 1987, this book examines Samuel Smiles’ ideals of work and self-help against the background of the Victorian work ethic. Drawing on ‘sub-literature’ such as pamphlets, periodicals, novels, works by Dissenting and Anglican ministers, popular ‘success’ and ‘self-improvement’ books, and general literature on the condition of the working classes, it presents a broad range of public opinion and attitudes towards work and in doing so, creates an essential framework and context for Smiles’ popular books. This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history and ideology.
Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic
Author : Timothy Travers
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
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Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic
Author : Timothy Hugh Eaton Travers
Publisher :
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
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Character
Author : Samuel Smiles
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Character
ISBN :
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Work and Unemployment 1834-1911
Author : Marjorie Levine-Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1000523748
Book Description
This volume examines the ideals and experiences of work during the long nineteenth century. The meanings attached to work had resonance in multiple aspects of people’s lives, and the sources consider this breadth. The primary sources examine the association of work with respectability, the challenges industrialization posed to men’s traditional labour and identities, and the pressures placed on working women by the increasingly normative domestic ideal. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume will be of great interest to students of British History.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture
Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521886996
Book Description
Stimulating and informative new essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century culture.
Unfree Workers
Author : Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811675589
Book Description
This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions. It highlights the contribution of convicts to worker mobilization and political descent, forcing a rethink of Australia’s foundational story. It is a book that will appeal to an international audience, as well as the many hundreds of thousands of Australians who can trace descent from convicts. It will enable the latter to make sense of the experience of their ancestors, equipping them with the necessary tools to understand convict and court records. It will also provide a valuable undergraduate and postgraduate teaching tool and reference for those studying unfree labour and worker history, social history, colonization and global migration in a digital age.
Joseph Conrad in Context
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release :
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Consuming Angels
Author : Lori Anne Loeb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 1994-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0195358872
Book Description
Timid and retiring, the Victorian housewife was an "angel in the house," or so says the stereotype. But when this angel picked up a popular magazine--The Lady, for instance--she saw in its advertisements images of Grecian goddesses, women warriors, queens, actresses, adventurers. These arrestingly sexual and surprisingly powerful images are the subject of Consuming Angels, a major examination of how Victorian ads shaped social values. Stylishly written and featuring 73 reproductions, this book shows how ads used the hedonistic aspects of Victorian culture to sell their wares, glorified consumerism, and mythologized the middle-class life. Images of aggressive women, Loeb shows, played well to both men and women. And ultimately, these ads helped usher in the twentieth century with the creation of a new community: the community of consumers.
