The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1840-1940 (Historical Connections)

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 Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive intorduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. "The Remaking of the British Working Class" includes a provocative, timely and clear defense of class analysis, and demonstrates how the history of the working class is politically constructed. This study also shows how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation, and illustrates how class and gender interact in mediating social and political change. This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1850, and breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation. This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1850, and shows how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation