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The Making of the English Working Class

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Penguin Books Limited, Sep 26, 2002 - Business & Economics - 960 pages
A book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality.

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User Review  - Marc L - Goodreads

This was compulsory reading in my university years. Meticulous study, but a little tidy. Read full review

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User Review  - Richard Thomas - Goodreads

A seminal book that I first read at uni and I have come back to three times since. It is a book with an agenda whose author makes no pretense at hiding his sympathies and for which I remain an admirer ... Read full review

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About the author (2002)

E. P. Thompson was born in 1924. Although never a member of the British academic establishment, he became one of the most influential, and political, historians of the twentieth century.

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TitleThe Making of the English Working Class
AuthorE. P. Thompson
PublisherPenguin Books Limited, 2002
ISBN0141934891, 9780141934891
Length960 pages
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Business & Economics / Economic History
History / Social History
Social Science / Social Classes
  
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