The Making of the English Working Class

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IICA, 1963 - Social Science - 848 pages
 

Contents

CONTENTS
9
THE LIBERTY TREE
15
Christian and Apollyon
26
Satans Strongholds
55
The Freeborn Englishman
77
THE CURSE OF ADAM
187
The Field Labourers
213
Artisans and Others
234
Sherwood Lads
552
By Order of the Trade
575
Demagogues and Martyrs
603
Problems of Leadership
607
Hampden Clubs
631
Brandreth and Oliver
649
Peterloo
669
The Cato Street Conspiracy
700

The Weavers
269
The Transforming Power of the Cross
350
Community
401
THE WORKINGCLASS PRESENCE
449
Radical Westminster
451
An Army of Redressers
472
The Opaque Society
484
The Laws against Combination
497
Croppers and Stockingers
521
Class Consciousness
711
William Cobbett
746
Carlile Wade and Gast
762
Owenism
779
A Sort of Machine
807
Bibliographical Note
833
Acknowledgements
837
Index
838
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Thompson is a contemporary neo-Marxist. He has studied especially the development of a working-class consciousness in the early years of the Industrial Revolution.

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