Annabel Hobley
Author
Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Shopgirls should be heroines, as celebrated as steelworkers in the Industrial Revolution. A million of us were shop assistants by the turn of the twentieth century and since then retail has grown exponentially to become Britain's largest area of economic activity. But the young women at the heart of this economic and cultural revolution, the shop assistants themselves, have largely been ignored. 'Shopgirls' will tell the story of the lives of the...