1st Edition

Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England

By Trygve Tholfsen Copyright 1976
334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class subculture that enabled working men to resist the full consolidation of middle-class hegemony. The book traces the growth of working-class... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Problems of Interpretation

2. The Genesis of Working-Class Radicalism

3. The Challenge of Working-Class Radicalism

4. The Mellowing of Middle-Class Liberalism, 1834-51

5. Mid-Victorian Urban Culture

6. Power and Status Relations

7. Middle Class Hegemony

8. The Working-Class Subculture

9. Trade Unions and Friendly Societies

10. Working-Class Radicalism and Parliamentary Reform

Index

Biography

Tholfsen, Trygve