7. The class struggle and the industrial revolution
1978; University of Toronto Press; Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/9781442652903-008
Autores Tópico(s)Political and Economic history of UK and US
ResumoBook review of John Foster, Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1974. This is an important book by a marxist historian which will have a considerable influence upon the work of social historians in the future. In a number of ways, this is a pioneering work, and its use of sophisticated quantitative techniques for the dissection of urban social structures will serve as a model for subsequent research workers. It is, however, a difficult volume to read; for one thing it is awkwardly organized around the experience of three towns-Oldham, Northampton and South Shields, with the greatest amount of space and attention being given to Oldham; and for another the analysis is densely argued but discontinuous, so that one has to jump from one section to another to obtain an overall understanding of the author's approach.
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