![]() Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become one of the most influential social commentaries every written. Thompsons monumental study of the making of the English working class, and the development of its consciousness, during its formative years of 1780 to. Thompson's magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain's greatest postwar historian. An edition of The making of the English working class (1963) The making of the English working class by E. ![]() Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England's greatest cultural and political force. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class-the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. ![]() A seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. ![]()
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