![]() ![]() First, the collective subjectivity that was being created was working class. Why?Ī few key claims held together the sprawling narrative. In contrast, Thompson and the book are mostly forgotten in American sociology. In the golden anniversary year of its publication, reassessments of the book and its author were commonplace in the British press. The Making transformed the discipline of history and influenced the post-sixties generation of historical sociologists as they rebelled against the consensus and modernizing theories that had dominated sociology. It is an original and much needed account of the industrial revolution from the perspective of the English people. ![]() Thompson traverses the period between 17 to recover popular traditions and the gradual formation of working-class consciousness. By the time Thompson died thirty years later, Eric Hobsbawm, Thompson’s one-time colleague in the post-war Communist Writers Group, noted that he was one of the 250 most-cited authors of all time and was the most-cited 20 th-century historian in the world. In 1963 an obscure Marxist press published The Making of the English Working Class by Edward Palmer Thompson, an adult educator and one of the intellectual founders of the British New Left. By Michael McQuarrie (guest Contributing Editor) ![]()
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