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Author |
: Edward Palmer Thompson |
Publisher |
: IICA |
Total Pages |
: 866 |
Release |
: 1964 |
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: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of the English Working Class by : Edward Palmer Thompson
This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.
Author |
: Jonathan Rose |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 478 |
Release |
: 2008-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300148350 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300148356 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by : Jonathan Rose
Which books did the British working classes read--and how did they read them? How did they respond to canonical authors, penny dreadfuls, classical music, school stories, Shakespeare, Marx, Hollywood movies, imperialist propaganda, the Bible, the BBC, the Bloomsbury Group? What was the quality of their classroom education? How did they educate themselves? What was their level of cultural literacy: how much did they know about politics, science, history, philosophy, poetry, and sexuality? Who were the proletarian intellectuals, and why did they pursue the life of the mind? These intriguing questions, which until recently historians considered unanswerable, are addressed in this book. Using innovative research techniques and a vast range of unexpected sources, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes tracks the rise and decline of the British autodidact from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. It offers a new method for cultural historians--an "audience history" that recovers the responses of readers, students, theatergoers, filmgoers, and radio listeners. Jonathan Rose provides an intellectual history of people who were not expected to think for themselves, told from their perspective. He draws on workers’ memoirs, oral history, social surveys, opinion polls, school records, library registers, and newspapers. Through its novel and challenging approach to literary history, the book gains access to politics, ideology, popular culture, and social relationships across two centuries of British working-class experience.
Author |
: Geoffrey Evans |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198755753 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198755759 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Politics of Class by : Geoffrey Evans
This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This argument is developed in three stages. The first is to show that there has been enormous social continuity in class divisions. The authors demonstrate this using extensive evidence on class and educational inequality, perceptions of inequality, identity and awareness, and political attitudes over more than fifty years. The second stage is to show that there has been enormous political change in response to changing class sizes. Party policies, politicians' rhetoric, and the social composition of political elites have radically altered. Parties offer similar policies, appeal less to specific classes, and are populated by people from more similar backgrounds. Simultaneously the mass media have stopped talking about the politics of class. The third stage is to show that these political changes have had three major consequences. First, as Labour and the Conservatives became more similar, class differences in party preferences disappeared. Second, new parties, most notably UKIP, have taken working class voters from the mainstream parties. Third, and most importantly, the lack of choice offered by the mainstream parties has led to a huge increase in class-based abstention from voting. Working class people have become much less likely to vote. In that sense, Britain appears to have followed the US down a path of working class political exclusion, ultimately undermining the representativeness of our democracy. They conclude with a discussion of the Brexit referendum and the role that working class alienation played in its historic outcome.
Author |
: Andrew Miles |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 109 |
Release |
: 2013-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134906819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134906811 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1840-1940 by : Andrew Miles
Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook: * Includes a provocative, timely and clear defence of class analysis * Breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation * Demonstrates how the history of the working class is politically reconstructed * Shows how class and gender interact in mediating social and political change
Author |
: Prof Joanna Bourke |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2008-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134858583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134858582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960 by : Prof Joanna Bourke
Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the 'working class' in Britain has been maintained through seventy years of radical social, cultural and economic change. She argues that class identity is essentially a social and cultural rather than an institutional or political phenomenon and therefore cannot be understood without constant reference to gender and ethnicity. Each self contained chapter consists of an essay of historical analysis, introducing students to the ways historians use evidence to understand change, as well as useful chronologies, statistics and tables, suggested topics for discussion, and selective further reading.
Author |
: Andrew August |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2014-06-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317877974 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317877977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The British Working Class 1832-1940 by : Andrew August
In this insightful new study, Andrew August examines the British working class in the period when Britain became a mature industrial power, working men and women dominated massive new urban populations, and the extension of suffrage brought them into the political nation for the first time. Framing his subject chronologically, but treating it thematically, August gives a vivid account of working class life between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, examining the issues and concerns central to working-class identity. Identifying shared patterns of experience in the lives of workers, he avoids the limitations of both traditional historiography dominated by economic determinism and party politics, and the revisionism which too readily dismisses the importance of class in British society.
Author |
: John Goodridge |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 815 |
Release |
: 2017-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108121309 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108121306 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of British Working Class Literature by : John Goodridge
A History of British Working-Class Literature examines the rich contributions of working-class writers in Great Britain from 1700 to the present. Since the early eighteenth century the phenomenon of working-class writing has been recognised, but almost invariably co-opted in some ultimately distorting manner, whether as examples of 'natural genius'; a Victorian self-improvement ethic; or as an aspect of the heroic workers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century radical culture. The present work contrastingly applies a wide variety of interpretive approaches to this literature. Essays on more familiar topics, such as the 'agrarian idyll' of John Clare, are mixed with entirely new areas in the field like working-class women's 'life-narratives'. This authoritative and comprehensive History explores a wide range of genres such as travel writing, the verse-epistle, the elegy and novels, while covering aspects of Welsh, Scottish, Ulster/Irish culture and transatlantic perspectives.
Author |
: Jamie L. Bronstein |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804734518 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804734516 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 by : Jamie L. Bronstein
By exploring in detail land reform movements in Britain and the United States, this book transcends traditional labor history and conceptions of class to deepen our understanding of the social, political, and economic history of both countries in the nineteenth century. Although divided by their diverse experiences of industrialization, and living in countries with different amounts of available land, many working people in both Britain and the United States dreamed of free or inexpensive land to release them from the grim conditions of the 1840s: depressing, overcrowded cities, low wages or unemployment, and stifling lives. Focusing on the Chartist Land Company, the Potters Joint-Stock Emigration Society, and the American National Reform movement, this study analyses the ideas that motivated workers to turn to land reform, the creation of working-class land reform cultures and identities among both men and women, and the international communication that enabled the formation of a transatlantic movement. Though there were similarities in the ideas behind the land reform movements, in their organizational strategies, and in their relationships with other reform movements in the two countries, the authors examination of their grassroots constituencies reveals key differences. In the United States, land reformers included small proprietors as well as artisans and factory workers. In Britain, by contrast, at least a quarter of Chartist Land Company participants lived in cotton-manufacturing towns, strongholds of unpropertied workers and radical activity. When the land reform movements came into contact with the organs of the press and government, the differences in membership became crucial. The Chartist Land Company was repressed by a government alarmed at the prospect of workers autonomy, and the Potters Joint-Stock Emigration Society died the natural death of straitened finances, but the American land reform movement experienced some measure of successso much so that during the revolution in American political parties during the 1850s, land reform, once a radical issue, became a mainstream plank in the Republican platform
Author |
: Ainsley, Claire |
Publisher |
: Policy Press |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2018-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781447344193 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1447344197 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Working Class by : Ainsley, Claire
Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no political party today can confidently articulate their interests. So who is now working class and how do political parties gain their support? Based on the opinions and voices of lower and middle income voters, this insightful book proposes what needs to be done to address the issues of the 'new working class'. Outlining the composition, values, and attitudes of the new working class, it provides practical recommendations for political parties to reconnect with the electorate and regain trust.
Author |
: Frederick Engels |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2023-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789359392769 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9359392766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Condition Of The Working-Class In England In 1844 by : Frederick Engels
"The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844" by Frederick Engels is a powerful indictment of the Industrial Revolution's detrimental impact on workers. Engels meticulously demonstrates how industrial cities like Manchester and Liverpool experienced alarmingly high mortality rates due to diseases, with workers being four times more likely to succumb to illnesses like smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, and whooping cough compared to their rural counterparts. The overall death rate in these cities far surpassed the national average, painting a grim picture of the workers' plight. Engels goes beyond mortality statistics to shed light on the dire living conditions endured by industrial workers. He argues that their wages were lower than those of pre-industrial workers, and they were forced to inhabit unhealthy and unpleasant environments. Addressing a German audience, Engels' work is considered a classic account of the universal struggles faced by the industrial working class. It reveals his transformation into a radical thinker after witnessing the harsh realities in England. "The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844" remains an essential resource for understanding the hardships endured by workers during the Industrial Revolution. Engels' meticulous research and impassioned arguments continue to shape discussions on labor rights, social inequality, and the historical agency of the working class.