The Condition of the Working Class in England
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780804706339 (0804706336)
Publish date: January 1st 1958
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Pages no: 386
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Economics,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Political Science,
Social Issues,
Class
MapsIntroduction, by Tristram HuntTo the Working Classes of Great BritainPreface to the First German EditionPreface to the English Edition--The Condition of the Working Class in EnglandEpilogue, by Victor KiernanChronologyFurther ReadingIndex
Want to read this because Jeannette Winterson recommends it in "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" According to her, it's "a frightening, upsetting account of the effects of the Industrial Revolution on ordinary people -- what happens when people 'regard each other only as useful objects.'"