The remaking of the British working class, 1840-1940

Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook:
* Includes a provocative, timely and clear defence of class analysis
* Breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation
* Demonstrates how the history of the working class is politically reconstructed
* Shows how class and gender interact in mediating social and political change