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The Making of the English Working Class
Thompson, E.P.
Publisher: Penguin BooksYear First Published: 1963 Year Published: 1968 Pages: 958pp Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX6368 Discusses the development of a working class consciousness from the 1790s to the Great Reform Bill Abstract: - Table of Contents Preface Part One: The Liberty Tree 1 Members Unlimited 2 Christian and Apollyon 3 'Satan's Strongholds' 4 The Free-born Englishman 5 Planting the Liberty Tree Part Two: The Curse of Adam 6 Exploitation 7 The Field Labourers 8 Artisans and Others 9 The Weavers 10 Standards and Experiences I Goods II Homes III Life IV Childhood 11 The Transforming Power of the Cross I Moral Machinery II The Chiliasm of Despair 12 Community I Leisure and Personal Relations II The Rituals of Mutuality III The Irish IV Myriads of Eternity Part Three: The Working-Class Presence 13 Radical Westminster 14 An Army of Redressers I The Black Lamp II The Opaque Society III The Laws against Combination IV Croppers and Stockingers V The Sherwood Lads VI By Order of the Trade 15 Demagogues and Martyrs I Disaffection II Problems of Leadership III The Hampden Clubs IV Brandreth and Oliver V Peterloo VI The Cato Street Conspiracy 16 Class Consciousness I The Radical Culture II William Cobbett III Carlile, Wade and Gast IV Owenism V 'A Sort of Machine' Postscript Bibliographical Note Acknowledgements Index Subject Headings |