Acknowledgments
PART I: 1832-1870
Introduction: Britain in 1832
1. Forming the Urban Working Class
2. Labor in the “Factory Age”
3. Leisure and the Urban Worker
4. Working-Class Identity and Politics
PART II: 1870-1914
Introduction: Discontinuity in 1870?
5. The “Traditional” Working-Class Community
6. Control, Conflict and Collective Bargaining in the Workplace
7. Expanding Leisure Opportunities
8. Class Identity and Everyday Politics
PART III: 1914-1940
Introduction: The Working Class and the Great War
9. Old and New Working-Class Communities
10. Unemployment, Dislocation and New Industries
11. Cinema, Dance Hall and Streets
12. Patriotism, Politics and Identity
Conclusion: Change and Continuity, 1832-1940
Epilogue
Bibliography
Biography
Andrew August is Associate Professor of History in the Abington College of Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Poor Women's Lives: Gender, Work and Poverty in Late-Victorian London (1999).
