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Recent Articles on English Working-Class History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Thomas Milton Kemnitz
Thomas Milton Kemnitz
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University of New Hampshire
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English labor and working-class history increasingly is becoming a respectable occupation for middle-class historians, and much of the recent work reflects middle-class bias and assumptions. One clear indication of this is the use of middle-class terminology. Much of the work noticed here – and some of it is very good – is about “the lower class.” A “lower class” can be identified only from a middle-class perspective; in the 1830s and 1840s, working people contemptuously rejected terms such as “lower classes” and “humbler classes”, insisting instead that they be referred to as the working or industrious class. Middle-class men anxious for working-class support learned the lesson quickly; historians are proving more insensitive over a century later.

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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 5 , June 1974, pp. 10 - 15
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1974

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