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The Making of the English Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class | E. P. Thompson
A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: A true masterpiece and one of the Modern Librarys 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune). During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working classthe workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as Englands greatest cultural and political force. Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. E. P. Thompsons magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britains greatest postwar historian. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become a seminal text on the history of the working class. It remains incredibly relevant to the social and economic issues of current times, with the Guardian saying upon the books fiftieth anniversary that it continues to delight and inspire new readers.
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This book is so fascinating! Middle para here sounds EXACTLY like what our biggest corporations are doing now...ahem-#amazon-ahem...
“It had a single tendency: to destroy the last vestige of control by the laborer over his own wage or working life.”
#labor #industrialrevolution #history #research #histfic #nerd #uk

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