The Ideologies of Class

Between 1880 and the early 1950s, about seventy-five per cent of the population were manual wage-earners or their dependents. Thus in order to understand the way modern Britain has evolved, it is essential to appreciate working-class culture and organization. This challenging collection of essays examines such topics as gambling, hobbies, poverty, the effects of the world wars, and the failure of Marxism to give an integrated explanation of British society and class ideology.