The Working Class in Britain

1850-1939

By: John Benson

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Paperback | 22 August 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Did Britain ever really have a working class? Was a truly unified and homogeneous class ever able to emerge from British factories, ports and industrial cities? How did the greater class-based social movements affect the United Kingdom? The Working Class in Britain answers these important questions through a rigorous analysis and description of class activism, collective struggle and working class history as a whole. Shattering commonly held beliefs, the history of the working class is shown to be distinct from Labour movement history and from the story of 'the boring bureaucracy of unions and proletarian parties'. While the struggle of activists was no doubt fundamental to many working people, there is little evidence to support the notion of a widespread revolutionary class consciousness. Instead, through newly discovered information and social science research, the working class is shown as a large and multi-layered stratum of British society with diverse interests, concerns, lives and life-styles.

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""John Benson has written an excellent survey of British working class history...I have no hesitation in praising it as a first-rate book, innovative and attractive to read, which deserves a second edition."" -- Chris Wrigley, University of Nottingham

""In this study, John Benson provides an eminently readable and scholarly synopsis and critique of recent research into the modern British working class. ""-- Roger Davidson, University of Edinburgh

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Social Classes History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History Sociology & Anthropology Sociology

Sociology & Work & Labour Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Modern History from 1700 to 1900 General & World History

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Notes and References	p. 4
Material Conditions	p. 7
Work	p. 9
Wages, Incomes And The Cost Of Living	p. 39
Housing	p. 72
Family And Community	p. 93
Family	p. 95
Kinship, Neighbourhood And Community	p. 117
Responses	p. 139
Individual, Nation And Class	p. 141
The Labour Movement	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 207
Select Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 214
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