Dusty Bob A Cultural History of Dustmen, 1780-1870

This book, the first study of the cultural representation of the dust trade, shows the ways in which London dustmen were associated with ideas of contamination, dirt, noise, violence, wealth, consumerism and threat. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, including plays, novels, reportage and, especially, visual culture,Dusty Bobdescribes the ways in which dustmen were perceived and mythologized in the first seventy years of the nineteenth century.Maidment, Brian is the author of 'Dusty Bob A Cultural History of Dustmen, 1780-1870', published 2007 under ISBN 9780719052835 and ISBN 0719052831.