Labouring Men, 9781474601412
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Uncover working-class struggles, unions, socialism, and the forces shaping labor.

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    416 pages

  • Release Date

    13 July 2015

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Summary

Labouring Men: A Deep Dive into Working-Class History

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 history, …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781474601412
ISBN-10:1474601413
Author:Prof Eric Hobsbawm, Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:13 July 2015
Weight:380g
Dimensions:216mm x 134mm x 36mm
About The Author

Prof Eric Hobsbawm

Born in Alexandria in 1917, Eric Hobsbawm was educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he taught for most of his career at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History. He is best known for his trilogy of studies on the long 19th century ( The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875-1914). He died in London in October 2012 at the age of ninety-five.

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