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The Making of the English Working Class

E.P. Thompson

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1963
Pages
Pages 850

The poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the 'obsolete' hand-loom weaver: E.P. Thompson set out to rescue them from what he called the enormous condescension of posterity, and accross eight hundred pages he does it, name by name, meeting by meeting.

the Luddite cropper, the 'obsolete' hand-loom weaver, the 'utopian' artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity.
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