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The associate
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Year: 1829 Publisher: London [s.n.]


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Essays in labour history. 2: 1886-1923
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ISBN: 0208012397 9780208012395 Year: 1971 Publisher: London : MacMillan,

The working class in Britain, 1850-1939
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ISBN: 1860649025 9786612527432 600000754X 1282527436 0857718002 1417569247 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Tauris

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The first generation of postwar British labor historians tended to be preoccupied with working class activism. The history of the working class concentrated on trade unions, left-wing politics, parties, and activists. This book attempts to chart not only this struggle, but to describe and analyze the rich and varied tapestry of working class history as a whole. John Benson examines work, wages, incomes, and the cost of living family, kinship, and community relations the individual in the context of nation and class and the labor movement in all its aspects.

Class struggle and the Industrial Revolution : early industrial capitalism in three English towns
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ISBN: 0416841007 9780416841008 9780203222379 9781135835071 9781135835118 9781135835125 9781138156395 Year: 1974 Volume: 600 Publisher: London : Methuen,


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Liberty's dawn : a people's history of the Industrial Revolution
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ISBN: 1299284094 0300194811 9780300194814 0300151802 9781299284098 9780300151800 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press,

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This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom. This rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of best-selling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers.

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