Published in 1911, these memoirs present a thoughtful portrait of the experiences and artistic enthusiasms of a Mancunian social reformer.

Excerpt from Fifty Years of Work Without Wages: Laborare Est Orare Thus have we used practical science to its utmost, and our mechanical engineering work shops are without rivals. Of course we pay a big price for all this. On the coal-beds of Lanca shire and the West Riding of Yorkshire we have a population of some seven millions, and no tree - nothing that the Almighty could call a tree, though there are thousands Of blackened sticks which console and delight us with a few months Of Spring leafage. We have to go far afield for pure, unspoiled nature. On the other hand, the materialistic advantage is undoubted, for not only have we bred an army of great capitalists, but the mass of the people are well housed on the whole, and their wages are, as a rule, good and steady. One supposes there is no other industrial community that is uniformly so well off on the bread-and-butter side of existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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production for family consumption and for the wider market. While the importance of women’s domestic labor has been generally recognized, the complex articulation between household activities and the changing nature of the economy has rarely been examined in greater depth than in this volume. The authors explore, theoretically and empirically, the relationships between household labor, wage levels, markets, economic change, and the status of women in the context of both first and third world countries. In the process, narrowly-defined debates are expanded, suggesting ways in which our understanding of domestic activities is relevant to studies of petty commodity production and vice versa.

This book argues that Ford Madox Brown’s murals in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall (1878–93) were the most important public art works of their day. Brown’s twelve designs on the history of Manchester, remarkable exercises in the making of historical vision, were semi-forgotten by academics until the 1980s, partly because of Brown’s unusually muscular conception of what history painting should set out to achieve. This ground-breaking book explains the thinking behind the programme and indicates how each mural contributes to a radical vision of social and cultural life. It shows the important link between Brown and Thomas Carlyle, the most iconoclastic of Victorian intellectuals, and reveals how Brown set about questioning the verities of British liberalism.