The British Working Class 1832-1940

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-582-38130-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

Reihe: Studies In Modern History

In this insightful new study, Andrew August examines the British working class in the period when Britain became a mature industrial power, working men and women dominated massive new urban populations, and the extension of suffrage brought them into the political nation for the first time.

Framing his subject chronologically, but treating it thematically, August gives a vivid account of working class life between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, examining the issues and concerns central to working-class identity. Identifying shared patterns of experience in the lives of workers, he avoids the limitations of both traditional historiography dominated by economic determinism and party politics, and the revisionism which too readily dismisses the importance of class in British society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

August, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
PART I: 1832-1870

Introduction: Britain in 1832

1. Forming the Urban Working Class

2. Labor in the “Factory Age”

3. Leisure and the Urban Worker

4. Working-Class Identity and Politics

PART II: 1870-1914

Introduction: Discontinuity in 1870?

5. The “Traditional” Working-Class Community

6. Control, Conflict and Collective Bargaining in the Workplace

7. Expanding Leisure Opportunities

8. Class Identity and Everyday Politics

PART III: 1914-1940
Introduction: The Working Class and the Great War

9. Old and New Working-Class Communities

10. Unemployment, Dislocation and New Industries

11. Cinema, Dance Hall and Streets

12. Patriotism, Politics and Identity

Conclusion: Change and Continuity, 1832-1940
Epilogue
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew August is Associate Professor of History in the Abington College of Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Poor Women's Lives: Gender, Work and Poverty in Late-Victorian London (1999).