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.

Chapter 1 Politics and the British working class; Chapter 2 Occupational change, income and demographic class formation; Chapter 3 Workplace independence and economic restructuring; Chapter 4 Working-class formation and the city; Chapter 5 Working-class politics; Bibliography; Name index;Place and subject index;