Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in
Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the
mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist
militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class
subculture that enabled working men to resist the full
consolidation of middle-class hegemony. The book traces the growth
of working-class radicalism as it developed dialectically in
confrontation with middle-class liberal ideology in the generation
after Waterloo. Intellectual forces were of central importance in
shaping the character of the working-class Left and the
Enlightenment, in particular, as the chief source of ideological
weapons that were turned against the established order. The
Enlightenment also provided the intellectual foundations of the
middle-class ideology that was directed against the incipient
threat of popular radicalism. The book notes that the same
intellectual forces that entered into the first half of the
nineteenth century also shaped the value system that provided the
foundations of mid-Victorian urban culture. These forces also
contributed to the rapprochement between working-class liberalism,
bringing latent affinities to the surface. It is also emphasised,
however, that inherited ideas and traditions exercised their
influence in interaction with the structure of power and status.
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