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La famille ouvrière dans l'Angleterre victorienne : des regards aux mentalités
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ISBN: 2903528217 9782903528218 Year: 1983 Publisher: [Seyssel] : Champ Vallon,

Industrialization and the working class : the english experience, 1750-1900
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ISBN: 0859678911 9780859678919 Year: 1991 Publisher: Aldershot : Scolar Press,

Class and conflict in nineteenth-century England 1815-1850
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ISBN: 0710074190 0710074204 9780710074195 9780710074201 Year: 1973 Publisher: London Routledge and Kegan Paul

Languages of class : studies in English working class history, 1832-1982
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ISBN: 0521256488 0521276314 9780521276313 9780511622151 9780521256483 0511622155 0511868731 Year: 1983 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This collection of essays by Gareth Stedman Jones proposes a different way of seeing both historians' analytical conceptions of 'class', and the actual manifestation of class in the history of English politics and English culture since the 1830s. As the progenitor of the first generally acknowledged working-class movement, the English working class provided the initial empirical basis for not only the original Marxist theory of modern industry and proletarian revolution, but also subsequent historians' reactions against, or adaptations of, the Marxist theory of class. In Languages of Class Gareth Stedman Jones draws a distinction between two conceptions of class: the everyday and commonplace perception of its pervasiveness in England, and the Marxist idea of its revolutionary significance. He proceeds to challenge the predominant conceptions of the meaning and development of 'class consciousness' by stressing the political and discursive conditions in which particular languages appeared and receded. Among the themes of individual essays in the book are a rethinking of 'the making of the English working class' and the phenomenon of Chartism, a novel exploration of the formation and components of 'working-class culture', and, in the light of these, a new approach to understanding the history of the Labour Party.

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