![]() ![]() This is the first in a series highlighting labour history classics to have appeared in the SSLH Bulletin and its successor Labour History Review. We shall never again be able to view this period, the critical years 1780-1832, without being influenced by this book… Read the full text. ![]() Yet it represents, without a doubt, a landmark in English historiography and has made its author one of the really significant historians of our time. Alas, the length of the book, and its price, will put off many of those who ought to read it. As it was written by Edward Thompson, it was bound to combine the qualities of brilliant flashes of insight, of massive scholarship, of swift generalisation, as also of discursiveness and, at times, irrelevance. Sooner or later, this book had to be written, describing the creation of the first working class in the world, the first of this type of phenomenon as such. ![]()
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