The British Working Class, 1832-1940Pearson Longman, 2007 - 286 pages 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. This book will be of interest to students studying modern British history or the history of class. |
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... Pilgrim Trust , Men without Work ( [ 1938 ] ; New York : Greenwood Press , 1968 ) , 105 . 74 D. Vincent , Poor Citizens : The State and the Poor in Twentieth - Century Britain ( London : Longman , 1991 ) , 69-70 , 72 . 75 Ibid . , 90 ...
... Pilgrim Trust , Men without Work : A Report Made to the Pilgrim Trust ( [ 1938 ] ; New York : Greenwood , 1968 ) , 19 . 11 M. Thomas , ' Labour market structure and the UNEMPLOYMENT , DISLOCATION AND NEW INDUSTRIES 203.
... Pilgrim Trust , Men Without Work : A Report Made to the Pilgrim Trust ( [ 1938 ] ; New York , Greenwood Press , 1968 ) , 98 . 72 Mass Observation , The Pub and the People : A Worktown Study ( [ 1943 ] ; Welwyn : Seven Dials Press , 1970 ) ...
Contents
Britain in 1832 | 9 |
Labour in the factory age | 30 |
Leisure and the urban worker | 51 |
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