The British Working Class, 1832-1940Pearson Longman, 2007 - 286 Seiten 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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... neighbourhoods , even when they had to move house . According to Beatrice Webb , in poor urban districts people resembled ' the circle of suicides in Dante's Inferno ; they go ... WORKING CLASS , 1832-1940 The working-class neighbourhood.
... working - class community unbearable.8 Conclusion 85 The public and collective nature of these judgements , formulated in the corner shop , at doorsteps , or around shared facilities , helped mark working- class neighbourhoods as ...
... working - class neighbourhoods.43 Robert Robert's Salford neighbourhood boasted 15 public houses and one licensed hotel , which together served a population of about 3,000 . Roberts reports : ' To the great mass of manual workers the ...
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Britain in 1832 | 9 |
Labour in the factory age | 30 |
Leisure and the urban worker | 51 |
Urheberrecht | |
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