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Languages of Class - Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982 (Paperback)
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Languages of Class - Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982 (Paperback)
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This collection of essays by Gareth Stedman Jones proposes a
different way of seeing both historians' analytical conceptions of
'class', and the actual manifestation of class in the history of
English politics and English culture since the 1830s. As the
progenitor of the first generally acknowledged working-class
movement, the English working class provided the initial empirical
basis for not only the original Marxist theory of modern industry
and proletarian revolution, but also subsequent historians'
reactions against, or adaptations of, the Marxist theory of class.
In Languages of Class Gareth Stedman Jones draws a distinction
between two conceptions of class: the everyday and commonplace
perception of its pervasiveness in England, and the Marxist idea of
its revolutionary significance. He proceeds to challenge the
predominant conceptions of the meaning and development of 'class
consciousness' by stressing the political and discursive conditions
in which particular languages appeared and receded. Among the
themes of individual essays in the book are a rethinking of 'the
making of the English working class' and the phenomenon of
Chartism, a novel exploration of the formation and components of
'working-class culture', and, in the light of these, a new approach
to understanding the history of the Labour Party.
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