The Making of the English Working ClassThis classic account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
THE LIBERTY TREE | 15 |
Members Unlimited | 17 |
Christian and Apollyon | 26 |
Satans Strongholds | 55 |
The Freeborn Englishman | 77 |
Planting the Liberty Tree | 102 |
THE CURSE OF ADAM | 187 |
Radical Westminster | 451 |
An Army of Redressers | 472 |
The Opaque Society | 484 |
The Laws against Combination | 497 |
Croppers and Stockingers | 521 |
Sherwood Lads | 552 |
By Order of the Trade | 575 |
Demagogues and Martyrs | 603 |
Exploitation | 189 |
The Field Labourers | 213 |
Artisans and Others | 234 |
The Weavers | 269 |
Standards and Experiences | 314 |
Homes | 318 |
Life | 322 |
Childhood | 331 |
The Transforming Power of the Cross | 350 |
The Chiliasm of Despair | 375 |
Community | 401 |
The Rituals of Mutuality | 418 |
The Irish | 429 |
Myriads of Eternity | 444 |
THE WORKINGCLASS PRESENCE | 449 |
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