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The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson
May 15, 2020 - Feb. 22, 2024 (read, class-struggle)

Thompson, E. (1963). The Making of the English Working Class. Vintage Books.


Vintage Books, 1963. 848 pages. Paperback. 9780394703220

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p.109
truculent »
eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively de…
p.84
trammeled »
(verb) to catch or hold in or as if in a net; enm…
p.79
abeyance »
(noun) a lapse in succession during which there i…
p.62
chary »
(adjective) dear treasured / (adjective) ; discre…
p.59
homily »
(noun) a usually short sermon / (noun) a lecture …
p.247
to replace them with women or juvenile labour
But when we follow through the history of particu…
p.206
through the refraction of a particular system
It is scarcely possible to write the history of p…
p.206
short-circuiting the vagaries of the capitalist m…
If those in employment worked shorter hours, and …
p.205
by what social alchemy
It is perfectly true that what the empiricist poi…
p.203
the worker has become an ‘instrument'
The exploitive relationship is more than the sum …