1 Introduction: The Working Class at Home, 1790-1940
Part I The Material Home
2 'I can barely provide the common necessaries of life': Material Wealth over the Life-Cycle of the English Poor,1790-1834
3 Politicising the English Working-Class Home, c.1790-1820
4 Pulling Back the Covers: Uncovering Beds in the Victorian Working-Class Home
Part II The Emotional and the Exterior Home
5 Spaces of Girlhood: Autobiographical Recollections of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Working Class
6 Songbirds in East London Homes, from Henry Mayhew to Charles Booth
7 Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, and Me Dad's Geraniums: The Use and Meanings of Yards, Gardens and Other Outside Spaces of Urban Working-class Homes, 1890-1930
Part III Home Beyond Home
8 Diligence and Dissipation: The Maid Servant's Bed Chamber in the Late Eighteenth Century
9 Pauper Lunatics at Home in the Asylum, 1845-1906
10 Flexible, Portable and Communal Domesticity: Everyday Domestic Practices of Finnish Sailors and Logging Workers, c. 1880s to 1930s