The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson

Keywords * Making of the English Working Class, David Montgomery, New Left, radical history, David Roediger, Socialist Humanism, E. The experience of class, which resides at the center of the book, also draws our attention to the emotional dimension of class. If we have deconstructed and greatly complicated the notions of class and class formation, this process started not with postmodern theory but rather with The Making. Yet Thompson's interrogation of class analysis, and the racial and ethnic complexity of the process in the United States, encouraged an emphasis on 'unmaking' in the American context. His looser conception of class and his emphasis on culture shaped a new more flexible conception of class formation. Thompson's Socialist Humanism appealed to younger radical historians seeking to break with both Cold War liberalism and a highly structuralist form of Marxism. A seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality Includes bibliographical references (pages 833-836) and index The liberty tree. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class had a great impact on the new radical US history at its moment of gestation. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 19 The Making of the English Working Class by EP Thompson (1963) This influential, painstakingly compiled masterpiece reads as an anatomy of preindustrial. Buy a cheap copy of The Making of the English Working Class book by E.P. Thompsons revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a. Abstract : For both political and historiographical reasons, E. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael KennyThis classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding of English social history.

The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson