The Making of the English Working Class

A seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. 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 class—the 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 England’s 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. Thompson’s magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain’s greatest postwar historian. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become one of the most influential social commentaries every written.

Business & Money

E.P. Thompson

Economics

Vintage

Albion's fatal tree: Crime and society in eighteenth-century England

Illuminates the nature and social significance of crime in eighteenth-century England and reveals attitudes toward public hangings in London. Bibliogs

Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England

Douglas Hay

Peter Linebaugh

Cal Winslow

John G. Rule

History

Pantheon

This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merits of various inheritance customs in shaping particular kinds of society. At first sight the study of inheritance customs may appear to be a dull affair, concerned with outdated practices of hair-splitting lawyers; certainly, little academic interest has been shown in the subject. Yet inheritance customs are vital means for the reproduction of the social system, by the transmission of property and other rights through the family. Various family structures and social arrangements are linked by different means of inheritance. This book will interest a wide range of historians, students, postgraduates and teachers alike, whether they are concerned with social, economic, demographic or legal history, in the medieval, early modern or modern periods, and whether their interests are directed to England or other countries of Western Europe; it will also be valuable to social anthropologists, sociologists and historians of ideas. A comprehensive glossary of technical terms has been added for the non-specialist.

Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800 (Past and Present Publications)

Jack R. Goody

Joan Thirsk

Real Estate

Cambridge University Press

Making of the English Working Class

Europe

Victor Gollancz, Ltd.

Mad Dogs: The U.S. Raids on Libya

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Pluto Pr

William Morris, from Romantic to Revolutionary

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

The Merlin Press Ltd.

Beyond the Cold War

Merlin Press

Heavy Dancers

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

An account of the 1944 Special Operations mission into Serbia to make contact with a group of Bulgarian partisans operating in the area which resulted in the execution by firing squad of Frank Thompson and the remaining leaders of the partisans and villagers who had aided them.

Beyond the frontier: The politics of a failed mission, Bulgaria 1944 (Camp lectures)

William Morris-the great 19th century craftsman, architect, designer, poet and writer-remains a monumental figure whose influence resonates powerfully today. As an intellectual (and author of the seminal utopian News From Nowhere), his concern with artistic and human values led him to cross what he called the 'river of fire' and become a committed socialist-committed not to some theoretical formula but to the day by day struggle of working women and men in Britain and to the evolution of his ideas about art, about work and about how life should be lived. Many of his ideas accorded none too well with the reforming tendencies dominant in the Labour movement, nor with those of 'orthodox' Marxism, which has looked elsewhere for inspiration. Both sides have been inclined to venerate Morris rather than to pay attention to what he said. Originally written less than a decade before his groundbreaking The Making of the English Working Class, E.P. Thompson brought to this biography his now trademark historical mastery, passion, wit, and essential sympathy. It remains unsurpassed as the definitive work on this remarkable figure, by the major British historian of the 20th century.

William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary

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