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In this insightful new study, Andrew August examines the British working class in the period when Britain became a mature industrial power, working men and women dominated massive new urban populations, and the extension of suffrage brought them into the political nation for the first time.

Framing his subject chronologically, but treating it thematically, August gives a vivid account of working class life between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, examining the issues and concerns central to working-class identity. Identifying shared patterns of experience in the lives...

"This clear-eyed survey of working-class experience [...] presents a thoughtful, thorough, and up-to-date overview of scholarly debates about class, culture, and popular politics in the world's first industrial nation. Anyone interested in [...] the changing contours of working-class life between the Great Reform Act and the People's War will find this a most rewarding point of departure." Prof Susan Thorne, Duke University

"Since the 1970s our assumptions about class have crumbled before profound social, economic, and political changes and far-reaching theoretical...