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"""Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution"" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London). This ""provocative study"" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class (the New Yorker). The era didn't just bring about misery and poverty. On the contrary, Emma Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom. This rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of bestselling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers."

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Emma Griffin is professor of history at the University of East Anglia. She lives in Norwich, United Kingdom. Christine Rendel is a British-born audiobook narrator living in New York. Drawing on a strong stage and musical theater background, and a lifelong love of books, she has narrated nearly 100 audiobooks for major publishers as well as smaller independent houses. Her favorite genres include cozy mystery, romance, literature, historical drama, biography, and nonfiction. She also enjoys narrating how-to's and educational texts: retired for some years from an exciting and international healthcare career, Christine's always a teacher and always learning! Christine maintains a professional home studio on the end of eastern Long Island, from which she narrates and produces audiobooks, surrounded by nature, an unruly garden, and her supportive family-who also include two dogs and a lot of Koi fish. She's a proud member of PANA, SAG-AFTRA, the Audio Publishers Association, and Actors' Equity Association.

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