The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1840-1940

Download or read book The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1840-1940 written by Andrew Miles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook: * Includes a provocative, timely and clear defence of class analysis * Breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation * Demonstrates how the history of the working class is politically reconstructed * Shows how class and gender interact in mediating social and political change