"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...