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Labouring men : studies in the history of labour

By Eric J. , Hobsbawm

Book information

Publisher
Anchor Books edition
Year
1967
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12364554 bytes)
Edition
Paperback edition.
Pages
401\484
Time added
2020-01-22 18:45:42
Working class -- Great Britain;Working class -- Gr

Description

The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the middle of the nineteenth century; studies in the 'new trade unionism' of 1889 to 1914; studies in the late nineteenth-century revival of Socialism in Britain; and more general topics covering a wider chronological span. The common factor in this wide-ranging work is that, unlike much other work of labour history, it concentrates on the working classes as such, and on the economic and technical conditions which allowed labour movements to be effective or which prevented their effectiveness. This work is notable not only for its clarity and incisiveness, but also for the richness and variety of the material, which ranges from Marx to Methodism and from labour traditions to the machine breakers.  Read more...

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