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Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside by Rebecca Smith undifferentiated is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside about?

'A brilliant book about another side of working-class life, not a tower block in sight. Clever and honest, tackling slavery, loss and aspiration with humour and candour. I loved it' KIT DE WAAL 'A wonderful book, beautifully conceived' ADAM NICOLSON 'Thoughtful, moving, honest' CAL FLYN Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the land, but often those who labour in nature have the least control over what happens there. Starting with Rebecca Smith's own family history - foresters in Cumbria, miners in Derbyshire, millworkers in Nottinghamshire, builders of reservoirs and the Manchester Ship Canal - Rural is an exploration of our green and pleasant land, and the people whose labour has shaped it. Beautifully observed, these are the stories of professions and communities that often go overlooked. Smith shows the precarity for those whose lives are entangled in the natural landscape. And she traces how these rural working-class worlds have changed. As industry has transformed - mines closing, country estates shrinking, farmers struggling to make profit on a pint of milk, holiday lets increasing so relentlessly that local people can no longer live where they were born - we

Who reads Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside?

Author

Rebecca Smith undifferentiated

Publisher

William Collins

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780008526276

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction