Author: Rowntree & Co., ltdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Industrial Betterment at the Cocoa Works, York
Author: Rowntree & Co., ltdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Industrial Betterment at the Cocoa Works, York
Author: Ltd Rowntree &. CoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781298850324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Industrial Betterment at the Cocoa Works, York
Author: Rowntree (Firm)Rowntree & Co. Ltd
Author: Bulletin
Author: Bulletin - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia
Author: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Special Reports
Author: National Industrial Conference BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The N.C.R.
Author: Chocolate Wars
Author: Deborah CadburyPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586489259
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
With a cast of characters that wouldn't be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism of the Cadburys. Chocolate was consumed unrefined and unprocessed as a rather bitter, fatty drink for the wealthy elite until the late 19th century, when the Swiss discovered a way to blend it with milk and unleashed a product that would conquer every market in the world. Thereafter, one of the great global business rivalries unfolded as each chocolate maker attempted to dominate its domestic market and innovate new recipes for chocolate that would set it apart from its rivals. The contest was full of dramatic contradictions: The Cadburys were austere Quakers who found themselves making millions from an indulgent product; Kitty Hershey could hardly have been more flamboyant yet her husband was moved by the Cadburys tradition of philanthropy. Each was a product of their unique time and place yet they shared one thing: they want to make the best chocolate in the world.
The Respectability of Late Victorian Workers
Author: Charles Walter MastersPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443825301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This study of the working classes of York in the late Victorian period places respectability at the heart of the interpretation of working-class culture, drawing attention to its distinctive role within working-class daily life while eschewing a class-based analysis. Through an investigation of workers’ actions, choice-making and personal testimony, and using a wide range of textual and non-textual sources, a picture is produced of what it meant to be respectable in working-class communities and respectability’s role in personal and community identity formation. Not only is the importance of gender-based notions of the male breadwinner and female homemaker explored, but fresh light is cast on how respectability was engaged with and negotiated in everyday contexts. Respectability is shown to be a dynamic and culturally creative process with workers building their identities within the confines of “structural” constraints, including street and neighbourhood based mores and institutions, but with a measure of self-generated cultural, social and organisational space. Far from respectability being a function of socio-economic differentiation, even the poorest are shown to have aspired to join self-help organisations and become worthy citizens. Crucially, “working-class respectability” is shown to have been moral and Christian in character—underpinned by a form of diffusive Christianity that was robust and vital rather than some kind of legacy cultural and religious phenomenon. Although different attributes of respectability could be prioritised within working-class circles, respectability is seen as a distinctive and essentially pan-class culture centred on a set of universal values which distinguished and defined the respectable citizen and separated him from imagined or real rough “Others.” This study will appeal to readers interested in social and cultural history, gender studies and material culture. York inhabitants are given their own voice through hitherto unpublished, as well as published, oral and written testimony. Worker and family attitudes are analysed in the everyday contexts of work, home, neighbourhood and leisure, and as part of the wide-ranging discussion, attention is paid to the cultural significance of what working people ate and wore, and what goods they bought to furnish their often very modest homes. The emphasis throughout is on a “grass-roots” analysis, showing clearly how and why respectability answered the needs and aspirations of most ordinary Victorian and Edwardian workers and their families.