With over a 1000 close packed pages it is certainly great value per word and per page and there are not too many wasted words. Between 1909 and 1913 members of the Fabian Women's Groupvisited and recorded the daily budgets of 30 families in Lambeth, South London. The title indicates just what the wage earner brought home to feed and sustain his family. This classic text, is one of the most important and vivid historical portraits of the daily life of working people in the esrly part of the twentieth century. Probably the hardest thing to do is to collect all the information you have about your family and put it into words.
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