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The remaking of the British working class, 1840-1940 /

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1850, and breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Savage, Michael, 1959-
Other Authors: Miles, Andrew, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Series:Historical connections.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables and figures; Series editors' preface; Introduction and acknowledgements; Politics and the British working class; Labour history; The social history of class; The turn against social class; Class analysis reclaimed; Occupational change, income and demographic class formation; Occupational structure; Income inequality and labour market divisions; Social mobility and the working class; Conclusions; Workplace independence and economic restructuring; The development of impersonal capitalism, 1880 1950; Conclusions; Working-class formation and the city.