{"product_id":"2026200004854-secondhand-the-making-of-the-english-working-class","title":"The Making Of The English Working Class","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair             ,              ex-library\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Shelf wear on binding. Tanning on block but pages otherwise in good condition and clean. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of social history, The Making of the English Working Class argues that the English working class was not a passive product of industrialization but an active agent in its own formation, shaped by shared experiences, culture, and political struggle between 1780 and 1832. E. P. Thompson chronicles the lives of artisans, weavers, radical reformers, and Luddites with extraordinary depth, recovering the voices of ordinary men and women who have too often been dismissed by traditional historical accounts. Written with both scholarly rigor and passionate conviction, the work dismantles the notion that class is a fixed economic category, presenting it instead as a dynamic relationship lived and contested in real historical time. Thompson draws on an vast range of primary sources — pamphlets, trial records, hymns, and political tracts — to illustrate how a collective identity was forged through oppression, solidarity, and resistance. Monumental in scope and radical in its methodology, this foundational text permanently transformed the discipline of social history and remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the roots of working-class consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48792274338011,"sku":"2026200004854-SECONDHAND","price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c271b01e-0f93-49b8-93b3-18e5db0ce4ec.png?v=1779274468","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200004854-secondhand-the-making-of-the-english-working-class","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}