AN ARTISAN ELITE IN VICTORIAN SOCIETY by Geoffrey Crossick ( 9781138647084 )

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AN ARTISAN ELITE IN VICTORIAN SOCIETY
KENTISH LONDON 1840-1880

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Geoffrey Crossick

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

6 June, 2016

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Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World 9

Pages:

306

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First published in 1978. Mid-Victorian Britain was relatively stable in comparison with the turbulent period that preceded it, and that stability is in part explained by the emergence of an artisan elite with a specific relationship to the society around it. This book examines that elite: its clubs and societies, co-operatives and building societies; its values and ideology, challenging the notion that these artisans directly absorbed middle-class values; its politics, tracing the evolution from Chartism through the Reform League and on to a radical liberalism which existed in constant tension with the local liberal middle class. A careful reconstruction of the social, political and industrial life of these artisans is set within the context of the local communities, and their understanding of the mid-Victorian society in which they lived is seen as the explanation for their values and activities. This title makes a major contribution towards our understanding of the nineteenth-century working class.

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