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The remaking of the British working class, 1840-1940 / Mike Savage and Andrew Miles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savage, Michael, 1959-
- Series:
- Historical connections.
- Historical connections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Working class.
- Working class--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (117 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [91]-100) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-90681-1
- 0-585-45228-8
- 1-280-05212-0
- 0-203-41662-7
- 9780203416624
- OCLC:
- 647381360
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