The Working Class in Modern British History
Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling

Table of Contents

Part I. The working class in British politics:
1. The social democratic theory of the class struggle Peter Clarke
2. Keir Hardie and the Labour Leader, 1893–1903 Fred Reid
3. Winston Churchill and the working class, 1900–14 Paul Addison
4. Expectations born to death: local Labour party expansion in the 1920s Christopher Howard
5. Post-war reconstruction in Wales, 1918 and 1945 Kenneth O. Morgan
6. Imperialism and the Labour government of 1945–51 Partha Sarathi Gupta
Part II. The working class in British society:
7. Work and hobbies in Britain, 1880–1950 Ross McKibbin
8. Credit and thrift and the British working class, 1870–1939 Paul Johnson
9. Intelligent artisans and aristocrats of labour: the essays of Thomas Wright Alastair Reid
10. Anglo-Marxism and working-class education Chushichi Tsuzuki
11. Did British workers want the welfare state? G. D. H. Cole's Survey of 1942 Jose Harris
12. Images of the working class since 1930 Arthur Marwick
13. Unemployment, nutrition and infant mortality in Britain, 1920–50 Jay Winter.

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