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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.
History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1800-1999 --- Working class --- History. --- Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. --- Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. --- Working class -- Great Britain -- History. --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- History
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Industrial revolution --- Labor unions --- Working class --- History --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Social classes --- Labor movement --- Labor --- Labor. --- Labor movement. --- Social classes. --- Working class. --- History. --- Northampton (Mass.). --- Oldham (England). --- South Shields (England). --- England. --- England --- Massachusetts --- Industrial revolution - England - History - 19th century --- Labor unions - Great Britain - History - 19th century --- Working class - Great Britain - History - 19th century --- Great Britain - Social conditions - 19th century
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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.
Working class --- Industrial revolution --- Autobiography. --- History --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Biography as a literary form --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- E-books --- Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.. --- Industrial revolution -- Great Britain.. --- Autobiography.. --- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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English fiction --- Working class --- Working class writings, English --- History and criticism --- History --- Great Britain --- -Fiction in English --- Labor and laboring classes in literature. --- Working class in literature. --- 1837-1900 --- Special themes --- Working classes. --- -Working class --- -Working class in literature --- -Labor and laboring classes in literature --- English literature --- English working class writings --- Laboring class writings, English --- Workers' writings, English --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- -History and criticism --- Laboring class authors --- Employment --- -English fiction --- Working class in literature --- Labor and laboring classes in literature --- Fiction in English --- England --- History and criticism. --- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- Working class - Great Britain - History - 19th century --- Working class writings, English - History and criticism --- Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901
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