Download The Making Of The English Working Class Images. Watch professors geoff eley of the university of michigan and steven hahn of the university of pennsylvania speak during the dec. Thompson's monumental study of the making of the english working class, and the development of its consciousness, during its formative years of 1780 to 1832.
The english (sometimes british) working class had made brief appearances in the writing of history before, but never like this and never with such spirit.
Thompson shows how the english working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality. Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive england was during the regency and the early reign of victoria. It was first published in 1963 and revised in 1968 by victor gollancz. Watch professors geoff eley of the university of michigan and steven hahn of the university of pennsylvania speak during the dec.
