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

• Autore: Savage Michael <1959->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The remaking of the British working class, 1840-1940
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Historical connections.