"Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, racially diverse nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. Wrongly assumed to be inarticulate on paper, these laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay...

"This remarkable book 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 Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows...

He making and re-making of the imperial nexus of jute, 1840-1940 -- The coming of the up-countrymen : labour conditions and class formation in the Bengal jute industry, 1875-1910 -- The making of juteopolis and the imperial nexus of jute, 1875-1910 -- Working class militancy and labor politics...