History 301
Spring 2000
Prof. Koenker

Workers and Working-Class Culture ca. 1900
United Kingdom and Others

March 22, 2000



I. Changes in the condition of labor since the 1840s

A. Economic
B. Political
C. Ideological
D. "Social"
E. Residential patterns
F. Welfare
G. Leisure

II. Implications for a sense of class

A. Significance of economic levels
B. Significance of affinities

1. National in form
2. Socialist in content
3. Working-class politics?
4. A class apart




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