The remaking of the British working class, 1840-1940 /
[Book]
Mike Savage and Andrew Miles.
New York :
Routledge,
1994.
1 online resource (xii, 106 pages) :
illustrations
Historical connections
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-100) and index.
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.
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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.
Remaking of the British working class, 1840-1940.
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Working class-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Working class-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.