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The remaking of the British working class, 1840-1940 [[electronic resource] /] / Mike Savage and Andrew Miles



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Autore: Savage Michael <1959-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The remaking of the British working class, 1840-1940 [[electronic resource] /] / Mike Savage and Andrew Miles Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (117 p.)
Disciplina: 305.5/62/0941
Soggetto topico: Working class - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Working class - Great Britain - History - 20th century
Altri autori: MilesAndrew <1961->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [91]-100) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1840-1940; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables and figures; Series editors' preface; Introduction and acknowledgements; 1 Politics and the British working class; Labour history; The social history of class; The turn against social class; Class analysis reclaimed; 2 Occupational change, income and demographic class formation; Occupational structure; Income inequality and labour market divisions; Social mobility and the working class; Conclusions; 3 Workplace independence and economic restructuring
Mid-Victorian capitalismThe development of impersonal capitalism, 1880-1950; Conclusions; 4 Working-class formation and the city; Middle-class hegemony in the Victorian industrial city; The rise of the working-class neighbourhood, 1880-1920; Urban change after 1914; Conclusions; 5 Working-class politics; The new revisionism: historians and the Labour Party; The rise of Labour, 1880-1918; The moment of trade union militancy, 1910-1926; Reversal and retreat, 1931-1942; Conclusions; Bibliography; Name index; Place and subject index
Sommario/riassunto: 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
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ISBN: 1-134-90681-1
0-585-45228-8
1-280-05212-0
0-203-41662-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783953003321
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