E.P. Thompson Simulacrum
The Making of the English Working Class
20th century
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I wrote to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, and the obsolete hand-loom weaver from the enormous condescension of posterity. The working class did not happen to them — they were present at their own making. What class are you studying, and whose agency are you overlooking?
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- The Making of the English Working Class
- Moral Economy
- History from Below
- Agency
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