...structure." Similar to Wallerstein, Thompson (1984:116) sees class as more than an economic relationship: "We cannot understand class unless we see it as a...work themselves out over a considerable historical period." Under such an approach, class relationships are defined very "loosely," as Thompson (1984:115,...

...deference or of love. The relationship must always be embodied in real people and in a real context ... I am convinced that we cannot understand class unless...work themselves out over a considerable historical period (EP. Thompson 1980 [1963], 8-11) The rise of the polis is the historical process whereby groups...

...each fact can be given meaning only within an ensemble of other meanings." Elsewhere he has insisted that "we cannot understand class unless we see it...work themselves out over a considerable historical period." 56 To fulfill these imperatives with absolute respect for the particularity of people and...

...structure." Similar to Wallerstein, Thompson (1984, p. 116) sees class as more than an economic relationship: "We cannot understand class unless we see it as a...work themselves out over a considerable historical period." Adopting such an approach, class relationships are defined very "loosely," as Thompson (1984,...

...evades analysis if one attempts to stop it dead at any given moment and analyse its structure. ... we cannot understand class unless we see it as a social...work themselves out over a considerable historical period. 18 And again, though Thompson draws on a metaphor of industrialization, a similar analysis...

...by such critics as Hoggart and Williams and historians, notably Christopher Hill and Eric Hobsbawm, that "we cannot understand class unless we see it...work themselves out over a considerable historical period."15 Class, in Thompson's conception, is a "relationship not a thing" that comes into being not...

...a concrete historical context. In this respect he is in agreement with Edward Thompson, who argues that "we cannot understand class unless we see it...work themselves out over a considerable historical period" (1963:11). Furthermore, both Thompson and Chesneaux stress that the creation of the working...

...But if we take EP Thompson's definition of class ("a social and cultural formation arising from the processes which can only be studied as they work themselves out over a considerable period") and combine it with Gramsci's notion of the "historical bloc" (a coalition waging a war of...

...is defined by men as they live their own history, and, in the end, this is its only definition. ... I am convinced that we cannot understand class unless...work themselves out over a considerable historical period.2 Since the 1960s Stuart Hall and many others in England loosely affiliated with the Birmingham...

...sociologists, nevertheless I hope this book will be seen as a contribution to the understanding of class. For I am convinced that we cannot understand class unless...work themselves out over a considerable historical period. In the years between 1780 and 1832 most English working people came to feel an identity of...