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Stefanie Shackleton

IHS Workshop: “Honest, Clean, Industrious”: Working Class Respectability

February 8, 2023

Through a case study of a working-class woman in Victorian London, this paper explores ways that working-class Britons expressed ideas of respectability both within their own communities, and with those who sought to influence those communities. Rather than emulating the ideas of middle classes and elites, workers created their own parallel concepts. Stefanie Shackleton is a […]

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