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The Making of the English Working Class

The Making of the English Working Class

Summary

A book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. 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.

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E. P. Thompson

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