Showing papers by "Craig Calhoun published in 1984"

A Social History of the English Working Classes

Abstract: Part 1 The birth of the new society, 1815-1850: life at work life at home working-class protest and self-help government intervention - factory, mine and town government intervention - schools and churches the problem of poverty. Part 2 Equipoise and after 1850-1900: further reform of working and living conditions schools, churches and chapels after 1850 changing attitudes to poverty the growth of modern unionism. Part 3 New roles for labour 1900-1914: the Labour Party and the unions before World War I the liberal welfare reforms class, family and the quality of life. Part 4 Labour in peace and war 1914-1945: World War I between the wars World War II.