The moral economy reviewed - E. P. Thompson

The follow-up article to E. P. Thompson's classic 'The moral economy of the English crowd in the 18th century' from the book Customs in common.

Author

Attachments

Pt.1 Crowds, riots, early capitalism.pdf (15.76 MB)

Pt.2 Role of women in food riots.pdf (15.38 MB)

Comments

Related content

The moral economy of the English crowd in the eighteenth century - E. P. Thompson

E. P. Thompson's ground-breaking article on the English food riots of the 1700 and 1800s.

The break-up of the WRP: from the horse’s mouth - Simon Pirani

An account by one of its former activists of the breakup of the UK Trotskyist group Workers…

Match girls' strike, London 1888

The English working class - Tom Nairn

"The passage of the early English working class from revolt to political integration is often explained solely by Britain's ascendancy as the…

Frames from Nightcleaners

Jolting memory: Nightcleaners recalled - Sheila Rowbotham

Sheila Rowbotham recalls both the campaigns to organise female night cleaners in London from 1970,…

Customs in common - E. P. Thompson

Eighteenth-century Britain saw a profound distancing between the culture of the patricians and the plebs. E. P. Thompson explains why in this…

Illustration of a protest to reduce the price of grain

Damn his charity, we'll have the cheese for naught! Nottingham's great cheese riot and other 1766 food riots - Valentine Yarnspinner

Superb pamphlet by Valentine Yarnspinner published by the People's Histreh group…