Remaking of the British Working Class 1840-1940

<p>Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook:<br> * Includes a provocative, timely and clear defence of class analysis<br> * Breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation<br> * Demonstrates how the history of the working class is politically reconstructed<br> * Shows how class and gender interact in mediating social and political change</p> Chapter 1 Politics and the British working class; Chapter 2 Occupational change, income and demographic class formation; Chapter 3 Workplace independence and economic restructuring; Chapter 4 Working-class formation and the city; Chapter 5 Working-class politics; Bibliography; Name index;Place and subject index;