Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women by Margaret Llewelyn Davies

Life as We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women by Margaret Llewelyn Davies
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The Co-operative Working Women have produced an interesting historical insight into life for early twentieth century working family lives. We learn how difficult and precious life is, of how they scrape through, and how people cope with changing times.There are heartbreaking stories of how people coped in times of poverty; and how only the innocence of the children brought aid to the whole family. All the stories sing the praises of the Co-operative and how each lady is involved, but it's the opening accounts of their stories that are the most interesting when the writer tells us their working livelihood as a child. The only dull account within this book is of the introductory letter by Virginia Woolf; which mentions family life not once and seems to focus solely on female workers and feminist politics; which mocks the ladies’s account in some way. At the end of the day, everyone has a story to tell.

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