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The Making of the English Working Class

By: E.P. Thompson
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: "A true masterpiece" and one of the Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune).

During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class - the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. 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. 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.

E. P. 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. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become a seminal text on the history of the working class. It remains incredibly relevant to the social and economic issues of current times, with the Guardian saying upon the book's fiftieth anniversary that it "continues to delight and inspire new readers."

©1963 E. P. Thompson (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
19th Century Europe Great Britain Labor & Industrial Relations Modern Politics & Government England Socialism Capitalism United Kingdom Imperialism Social justice English Working Class
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The narration on this book is so bad it's unlistenable. I don't know why the narrator decided to read every sentence as if it was a question but that's kinda what it sounds like.

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