Introduction to the Working Class in Britain

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