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An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society - Kentish London 1840-1880 (Paperback)
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An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society - Kentish London 1840-1880 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
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First published in 1978. Mid-Victorian Britain was relatively
stable in comparison with the turbulent period that preceded it,
and that stability is in part explained by the emergence of an
artisan elite with a specific relationship to the society around
it. This book examines that elite: its clubs and societies,
co-operatives and building societies; its values and ideology,
challenging the notion that these artisans directly absorbed
middle-class values; its politics, tracing the evolution from
Chartism through the Reform League and on to a radical liberalism
which existed in constant tension with the local liberal middle
class. A careful reconstruction of the social, political and
industrial life of these artisans is set within the context of the
local communities, and their understanding of the mid-Victorian
society in which they lived is seen as the explanation for their
values and activities. This title makes a major contribution
towards our understanding of the nineteenth-century working class.
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