The Working Class in Britain, 1850-1939 (Themes In British Social History)

by JohnBenson (Author)

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  Paperback
  1989

  $3.26

  John Benson draws upon a vast amount of material bringing alive the everyday world of the working classes in Britain between 1850 and the Second World War.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $11.81

  Who made up the working class in Britain, who were the ordinary men and women and what were their aspirations? The first generation of postwar British labour historians tended to be preoccupied with working class activism. This texts attempts to chart not only this struggle, but to describe and analyse the rich and varied tapestry of working-class history as a whole. It demonstrates that class both existed and mattered although ordinary men and women had diverse lives and lifestyles. Professor Benson examines work, wages, incomes and the cost of living, family, kinship and community relations and the individual in the context of nation and class.