10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUSTMEN»
Discover the use of
dustmen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dustmen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dusty Bob: A Cultural History of
Dustmen, 1780-1870
A study of the cultural representation of the dust trade, this book offers answers to this question by showing the ways in which London dustmen were associated with ideas of contamination, dirt, noise, violence, wealth, consumerism and ...
2
Media, Knowledge and Power
dustcart drivers have gone on strike, in both cases over pay': 'And still in Scotland
, strikes by hospital engineers, dustmen [sic] and ambulance controllers continue.
'5 In fact, as indicated in Chapter 1, eventually the frame was reinforced for ...
Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Peter Braham, 2013
3
Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs
Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays — by Thomson himself or social activist Adolphe Smith — that offer sharply drawn vignettes of ...
4
Classes of the capital, a sketch book of London life
Marvellous ashes, indeed ! they breathe life into our Dustmen, froth up their
foaming tankards, fill their pipes, feed their wives and babies, and mark their
faces with that broad and characteristic drollery, that peculiar aspect, a
compound of ...
Mayhew took some delight in explaining how healthy and robust the dustmen as
agroup were, and reported that 'the London dustmen boastthat during both the
recent visitationsof the cholera, theywere altogetherexempt fromthe disease'.
6
Bad News (Routledge Revivals)
Trouble in Glasgow with striking dustmen and ambulance controllers, short time
in the car industry, no Sunday Mirror or Sunday People and a fair amount of
general trouble in Fleet Street...' (News Review, BBC2, Sunday 19 January).
Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, 2009
7
Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960: On the Halls ...
On the Halls on the Screen Paul Matthew St. Pierre. and Co (Seth) in Inkey and
Co (January 1913), Inkey and Co in Business (April 1913), and Inkey and Co—
Glad Eye (May 1913), and as "The Happy Dustmen," Bill (Albert) and Walter (
Seth), ...
Paul Matthew St. Pierre, 2009
8
Reading Popular Prints 1790-1870
Educated. dustmen: DIRT AND DISRUPTION IN THE PURSUIT OF
KNOWLEDGE IN REGENCY AND EARLY VICTORIAN BRITAIN Printmaking
traditions between 1820 and 1840 This chapter concerns the making and
interpretation of both ...
There is a couplet of Schiller's, headed " Kant and his Interpreters," which runs
thus: On one rich man feeds many a starving rogue ; When monarchs build — the
dustmen are in vogue. The term " dustmen" is appropriate enough to the ...
Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, 1855
10
Community Art: An Anthropological Perspective
As for the dustmen and the residents, normally dustmen receive little respect,
ignored by those whose rubbish they collect except when they cause a problem
by failing to take stuff away, drop unsavoury rubbish as they empty the bin or idle
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUSTMEN»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
dustmen is used in the context of the following news items.
Briton with Malta links still a fugitive, 12 years after brutal murder
The body was dumped in a wheelie bin, but dustmen refused to take the bin from the front of the house because it was too heavy, leading to the ... «Malta Independent Online, Jul 15»
Watchdog slams council's wheelie bin decision which caused …
Then dustmen had to lift them out again – because they were also unable to take the bin down the steps. Despite numerous complaints and ... «Birmingham Mail, Jul 15»
Issue of rubbish around city has always existed
Back in the bad old days, the dustmen were just about to strike or were already striking. Their unions, run by bright young men, were dirty ... «The Argus, Jul 15»
Geoffrey Shryhane's Wigan World
The clips of dustmen play fighting – and snoozing – must have brought “tut-tuts” from all parts of the nation. But don't forget, the lads were on ... «Wigan Today, Jul 15»
Prosecutions would stop Helston's rubbish problem
He said: "Some [people] seem to think it's acceptable to abandon sacks of waste ready for the dustmen at three in the afternoon. "Coming up to ... «Falmouth Packet, Jun 15»
11 Rubbish Victorian Jokes About London
This one needed explaining then, and needs even more annotation now. Dustmen used to carry bells; Bellona was a Roman goddess of war. «Londonist, Jun 15»
Christopher Stevens reviews Don't Blame the Council
During the Winter of Discontent in the late Seventies, when the dustmen were on strike and rubbish piled up in the streets, a national crisis was ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
'Was the consultation paper carved in marble?' - cost of library …
Private Profits for Shareholders and Get back to the workers who provide the services like dinner ladies, social care workers, dustmen etc. «This is Local London, Jun 15»
Mummy Found in Trash to Go On Show in Paris Suburb Museum
In 2001 dustmen in Rueil-Malmaison, just outside Paris, were intrigued by a package dumped by a women who said she was clearing her ... «AllAfrica.com, May 15»
Bin men won't pick up certain types of rubbish because it is 'too low …
... residents in North Devon who try to help the environment by painstakingly sorting and grading their household rubbish for the dustmen. «mirror.co.uk, May 15»
