A Social History of the English Working Classes, 1815-1945

E. Hopkins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

1979
Hodder Arnold H&S (Verlag)
978-0-7131-0316-8 (ISBN)

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This text for advanced students presents a synthesis of research into the English working classes in the period 1815-1945. Divided into four chronological sections, the book examines living conditions at work and home, government intervention, the significance of religion and the concept of class.

Part 1 The birth of the new society, 1815-1850: life at work; life at home; working-class protest and self-help; government intervention - factory, mine and town; government intervention - schools and churches; the problem of poverty. Part 2 Equipoise and after 1850-1900: further reform of working and living conditions; schools, churches and chapels after 1850; changing attitudes to poverty; the growth of modern unionism. Part 3 New roles for labour 1900-1914: the Labour Party and the unions before World War I; the liberal welfare reforms; class, family and the quality of life. Part 4 Labour in peace and war 1914-1945: World War I; between the wars; World War II.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.1979
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography, Index
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 213 mm
Gewicht	404 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7131-0316-7 / 0713103167
ISBN-13	978-0-7131-0316-8 / 9780713103168
Zustand	Neuware