This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c. 1650-1850). Using a vast and diverse range of sources, it gets to the very heart of what it meant to be 'poor' by examining the homes of the impoverished and mapping how numerous household goods became more widespread. As the book argues, poverty did not necessarily equate to owning very little and living in squalor.
In fact, its novel findings show that most of the poor strove to improve their domestic spheres and that their demand for goods was so great that it was a driving force of the industrial revolution.
| ISBN: | 9781526194749 |
| Publication date: | 20th January 2026 |
| Author: | Joseph Harley |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Design and Material Culture |
| Genres: |
Material culture Poverty and precarity Social and cultural history |
This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c. 1650-1850). Using a vast and diverse range of sources, it gets to the very heart of what it meant to be 'poor' by examining the homes of the impoverished and mapping how numerous household goods became more widespread.
At Home With the Poor features in the following genres: Material culture, Poverty and precarity, Social and cultural history
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At Home With the Poor was written by Joseph Harley and published by Manchester University Press
At Home With the Poor has 272 pages
Yes it is part of Studies in Design and Material Culture series
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