Ebook: Labouring men : studies in the history of labour
Author: Hobsbawm Eric J.
- Tags: Working class -- Great Britain, Working class -- Great Britain -- History, Working class -- History, Labor -- Great Britain -- History, Labor -- History, Great Britain -- Economic conditions, Economic history, Labor, Working class, Great Britain
- Year: 1967
- Publisher: Anchor Books edition
- Edition: Paperback edition.
- Language: English
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The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the middle of the nineteenth century; studies in the 'new trade unionism' of 1889 to 1914; studies in the late nineteenth-century revival of Socialism in Britain; and more general topics covering a wider chronological span. The common factor in this wide-ranging work is that, unlike much other work of labour Read more...