Item #1126 THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS. E. P. Thompson.
THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS
THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS

THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS

New York: Pantheon, 1964. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. [7], 8-848pp. Large 16mo, burgundy heather cloth, gilt spine lettering and borders, blindstamped pantheon insignia to front cover, green head edge; illustrated green dust jacket with yellow lettering and flaps. Owner's name to FFEP, tail fore corner of first few pages lightly bumped, pristine otherwise, very clean and sharp; DJ price clipped with just a bit of wear to extremities and very faintly sunned spine, crisp and attractive in mylar wrap. NEAR FINE / VERY GOOD. Item #1126

A epochal text in labor and social history. Thompson made innovative use of art, religion, folk traditions, and other cultural expressions to argue the audacious case that the creation of an English Working Class involved the agency of English Working People. At times cheeky and thoroughly cogent, there could be no greater contrast to the drab strictly-economic analyses which comprise "the enormous condescension of posterity." "The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making."

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