The Making of the English Working Class

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Penguin Books Limited, Sep 26, 2002 - History - 976 pages
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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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The Making of the English Working Class
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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
Penguin Modern Classics
AuthorE. P. Thompson
Editionillustrated
PublisherPenguin Books Limited, 2002
ISBN0141934891, 9780141934891
Length976 pages
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Business & Economics / Economic History
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Social History
Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
  
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