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Hace 3 días · Demolitions for higher-class modern houses involved sweeping away not only picturesque architecture and old memories, but also a large body of working-class inhabitants.
Hace 2 días · Returning to London’s Shadows, Gray tackles the Victorian construction of the so-called criminal class in chapter 7. Standing below the respectable working class and existing entirely from crime, this underclass first emerged in the writings of Henry Mayhew.
Hace 3 días · Beaven aims to revive a view of working-class culture that, while sensitive to divergences according to generation, gender and income, identifies significant commonalities in a class-exclusive culture that proved remarkably impervious to attempts at reform and which embraced commercialism upon terms of its own making.
Hace 3 días · Because brewing took place chiefly during the winter months, at least until the late 19th century, men were employed in what elsewhere would have been a slack time, and it was claimed in 1851 that there were few towns in which the labouring class enjoyed a greater degree of comfort.
Hace 4 días · There are a number of underlying issues in labour history and working class politics addressed in the book. Perhaps the key one is the experience of defeat; what happens to a working-class movement like the Chartists after a serious reversal such as that of 1848?
All four streets had terraced working-class housing. The centrepiece of the area was the new Volunteer Drill Hall, erected by public subscription in 1869 at a cost of £2,500. Built of red sandstone in an 'Edwardian castellated' style, it was for the use of the Chester Artillery and Rifle Volunteers.
Hace 5 días · “Working Class” The term “working class” first appeared in 18th-century England to describe growing numbers of poor, property-less people who sold their labor for wages as modern capitalism evolved. 1 The classic image of “the working class” might be the factory proletariat of the late-19th-and 20th-century Fordist industrial economy—vast corporate labor armies punching time ...
