<P>Extending the limits of the award-winning <I>Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers </I>(2016) and its companion volume (and also award-winning) <I>Researching the Nineteenth-Century Press: Case Studies </I>(2017), <I>Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press: Living Work for Living People </I>advances our knowledge of how our identities have become inextricably defined by work. The collection''s innovative focus on the nineteenth-century British press''s relationship to work illuminates an area whose effects are still evident today but which has been almost totally neglected hitherto.</P><P>Offering bold new interpretative frameworks and provocative methodologies in media history and literary studies developed by an exciting group of new and established talent, this volume seeks to set a new research agenda for nineteenth-century interdisciplinary studies.</P>