This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1850, and breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation

The Decline of Industrial Britain 1870-1980 examines why the British economy has grown more slowly than the economies of the United States, Germany, Japan, Canada, France, and Italy since 1870, and why the British standard of living has fallen in relation. The first synthetic account of...