History · Industrialisation & the Nineteenth Century
Factory System & Labour
A topic within Industrialisation & the Nineteenth Century, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of History.
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- BookThe Making of the English Working ClassE. P. Thompson, 1963
A class is made by people, not produced by economics, and this rescues the losers of industrialisation from 'the condescension of posterity'.