By Andrew August
ISBN-10: 0582381304
ISBN-13: 9780582381308
In this insightful new research, Andrew August examines the British operating type within the interval while Britain grew to become a mature business energy, operating women and men ruled gigantic new city populations, and the extension of suffrage introduced them into the political state for the 1st time.
Framing his topic chronologically, yet treating it thematically, August provides a bright account of operating classification existence among the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, analyzing the problems and matters primary to working-class id. picking out shared styles of expertise within the lives of employees, he avoids the restrictions of either conventional historiography ruled by way of monetary determinism and celebration politics, and the revisionism which too conveniently dismisses the significance of sophistication in British society.
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