by Ellen Meiksins Wood Originally published in Solidiarity WHEN E.P. THOMPSON’S The Making of the English Working Class came out in 1963, there still existed a vibrant anti-capitalist culture on the intellectual left, which flourished with a special vigor among the British Marxist historians, a remarkable group to which Thompson belonged.
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Parchment in the Fire: Would the Making of the English Working Class get made today?
Would the Making of the English Working Class get made today? An interesting article by Rowan Cahill from Radical Sydney about whether or not Thompson’s classic work of social and labour history would see the light of day in today’s academic environment. Suffice to say, I’m inclined to think not
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