The British Working Class 1832-1940 by Andrew August

The British Working Class 1832-1940 by Andrew August

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.

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).

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ISBN 13	9781138158153
ISBN 10	1138158151
Title	The British Working Class 1832-1940
Author	Andrew August
Series	Studies In Modern History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2017-01-13
Number of pages	296
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