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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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