The Breaking of the English Working Class
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2026
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9781804295519 (ISBN)
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What has become of the English Working Class in the 21st Century?
Class is more central to understanding what is happening in the UK than it has been for decades. But what does it mean to be working class today? And how should we define it? For some, it is a cultural definition, untethered from its traditional links to labourism. For others, the divisions are found between generations based around the opportunities of home ownership.
Jonas Marvin argues that such simple definitions are not enough. Visiting two communities - Tottenham in north London, and Stoke in the Midlands, he shows that while there is a common experience of work, the differences in housing and everyday life are palpable, resulting in a profound bifurcation in proletarian consciousness. Ultimately, the book charts the demolition of the conscious, political subject whose emergence E.P. Thompson traced more than half a century ago: the English working class.
Class is more central to understanding what is happening in the UK than it has been for decades. But what does it mean to be working class today? And how should we define it? For some, it is a cultural definition, untethered from its traditional links to labourism. For others, the divisions are found between generations based around the opportunities of home ownership.
Jonas Marvin argues that such simple definitions are not enough. Visiting two communities - Tottenham in north London, and Stoke in the Midlands, he shows that while there is a common experience of work, the differences in housing and everyday life are palpable, resulting in a profound bifurcation in proletarian consciousness. Ultimately, the book charts the demolition of the conscious, political subject whose emergence E.P. Thompson traced more than half a century ago: the English working class.
Jonas Marvin is a writer, researcher and campaigner based in Stoke-on-Trent. He regularly contributes to Salvage, Novara Media, Voice Wales and Conter. He frequently participates in conferences, activist spaces and events speaking on themes related to socialist transition, social movements, race and class, uneven economic geography and nationalism.
Preface
Chapter One: Marx in the Potteries
Chapter Two: Disorganised Abandonment
Chapter Three: The Personal Society
Chapter Four: The Long 90s Were Really Long
Chapter Five: Whither Gravediggers?
Conclusion: Good Life Syndrome
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.8.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Salvage Editions |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 300 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781804295519 / 9781804295519 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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