Saving and Spending: The Working-class Economy in Britain, 1870-1939How did working-class families make ends meet in the face of low, and often erratic, wages? This unusual piece of working-class social history explores the various ways that British industrial families and local communities responded to this most pressing of practical problems, and offers some stimulating new obersvations about economic survival for the working classes of late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain. |
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Introduction I | 1 |
Life Insurance Death Insurance II | 11 |
Sickness Unemployment Old Age | 48 |
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accounts accumulation annual assets assurance companies average Ayrton Cttee benefit Bosanquet Britain building societies burial insurance capital cash cent Charity Organisation Society Charles Booth clubs Co-operation Co-operative Congress co-operative movement co-operative societies Collecting Societies credit trading customers debts deposit depositors dividend estimates expenditure families Friendly Collecting Societies Friendly Societies funds funeral hire-purchase History households Ibid income Industrial Assurance institutions inter-war Kenneth Hudson Labour lapse Liverpool loans London Madge Manchester manual workers Mass-Observation ment middle-class National Savings Northcote Cmmn Oddfellows paid pattern pauper Pawnbrokers pawning pawnshop payment pledge policies Poor Law POSB Post Office Poverty premium Prudential purchase Registrar of Friendly Report retail Royal Liver Samuel Smiles savers savings banks Savings Certificates scheme sickness social Statistics survey Table tion trade unions Trustee Savings Bank unemployment wage week weekly welfare Women's Co-operative Guild working-class saving