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Book · 1963 · Nonfiction

The Making of the English Working Class

E.P. Thompson
Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 848 pages
★ 7.9 editorial score

Thompson follows English weavers, artisans, and radicals from the 1780s to the 1830s and shows them making themselves into a class. He wrote to rescue them from the enormous condescension of posterity.

Genre
Social historyHistory
Subject
Working classIndustrial Revolution
Setting
England (United Kingdom)
Time
1963

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