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Money On't Table - Grit, Work and Family Pride: True Stories from the Boys and Girls of the Manufacturing Heartlands of of Britain

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Derek, Betty, Albert, Pauline, Doreen and Bob came from families where every penny counted. Education meant sacrifice, and even children had to help their family through illness, poverty and disaster. Leaving school as young as thirteen, they went to work at the Great British companies Boots, Players and Raleigh. Their new lives took them from cigarette packing, sewing machine piecework and selling rubber 'prophylactics' to places their parents could not have dreamt of - selling lingerie, working on the Queen Mary and even ...

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Money On't Table - Grit, Work and Family Pride: True Stories from the Boys and Girls of the Manufacturing Heartlands of of Britain 2017, September Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781910463543

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