The remaking of the British working class, 1840-1940

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The remaking of the British working class, 1840-1940

Mike Savage and Andrew Miles

(Historical connections)

Routledge, 1994

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Bibliography: p. [91]-100

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Description

Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook: * Includes a provocative, timely and clear defence of class analysis * Breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation * Demonstrates how the history of the working class is politically reconstructed * Shows how class and gender interact in mediating social and political change

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Politics and the British working class
  • Chapter 2 Occupational change, income and demographic class formation
  • Chapter 3 Workplace independence and economic restructuring
  • Chapter 4 Working-class formation and the city
  • Chapter 5 Working-class politics
  • Bibliography
  • Name index
  • Place and subject index

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