Now in its second edition, this landmark book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose discovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface uncovers the author's journey into labor history, and its rewarding link to intellectual history.
- ISBN10 0300153651
- ISBN13 9780300153651
- Publish Date 15 April 2010 (first published 11 July 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 544
- Language English