An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society : Kentish London 1840-1880 Hardback
by Geoffrey Crossick
Part of the Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World series
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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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- Pages:306 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:08/06/2016
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- ISBN:9781138647084
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:306 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:08/06/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138647084
