{"product_id":"high-wages-1","title":"High Wages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/Persephone.png?v=1775729186\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen eighteen-year-old Jane gets a job in a draper’s shop in a small town in Lancashire in 1912, so begins a great adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt first she delights in learning to cut fabric, getting to know the customers and making friends with the other shop-girls, but the terrible working conditions – low wages, too-small portions of kippers and bread, tidying up until late on Christmas Eve – lower her spirits. She spends her days off visiting the department stores of Manchester and London, which teach her as much about unwanted male attention as about\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ethe business of clothes, but before long an unexpected turn of events allows her, thrillingly, to open her own dress shop; amid struggles with the cleaning and cooking, trips to the local library, and a painful love affair, she continues to fight for the right to realise her own potential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Jane Brocket writes in the Preface: ‘In a delightful book full of details of clothes and furnishings, bust-bodices and gloves, Dorothy Whipple creates a powerful argument for the need for women to work, not for political or primary economic reasons, but for self-fulfilment and for the realisation of talent and potential.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHigh Wages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, first published in 1930 and Dorothy Whipple's second novel, is a lively portrayal of working-class life in the shadow of World War One, as well as a fascinating glimpse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e into the history of fashion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Farm Scene', a 1930 dress fabric by Crysede Ltd. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dorothy Whipple","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44960222085167,"sku":"9781903155752","price":1599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/highwages.png?v=1775723953","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/high-wages-1","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}