The Ghosts of Peterloo
Submitted by R Totale on Aug 25 2019 10:29
EP Thompson's landmark essay exonerating the Peterloo martyrs and incriminating the authorities.
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary - E. P. Thompson
Submitted by jondwhite on Feb 25 2017 22:58
Part of the series of biographies of William Morris. Thompson's first major work of scholarship was his biography of William Morris, written while he was a member of the Communist Party. Subtitled From Romantic to Revolutionary, it was part of an effort by the Communist Party Historians' Group, inspired by Torr, to emphasise the domestic roots of Marxism in Britain at a time when the Communist Party was under attack for always following the Moscow line.
The moral economy of the English crowd in the eighteenth century - E. P. Thompson
Submitted by tolern on Jul 16 2013 23:34
E. P. Thompson's ground-breaking article on the English food riots of the 1700 and 1800s.
Customs in common - E. P. Thompson
Submitted by wojtek on Jul 16 2013 22:55
Eighteenth-century Britain saw a profound distancing between the culture of the patricians and the plebs. E. P. Thompson explains why in this series of brilliant essays on the customs of the working people, which, he argues, emerged as a culture of resistance towards an innovative market economy.
The English working class - Tom Nairn
Submitted by Red Marriott on Feb 14 2012 23:27
"The passage of the early English working class from revolt to political integration is often explained solely by Britain's ascendancy as the first major imperialist power. In this essay Nairn focuses upon the political culture which British workers inherited from the British bourgeois class and argues that this was a crucial element in its domestication. Taking as his starting point Edward Thompson's pioneering and influential work The making of the English working class he seeks to demonstrate that 'history from below' must be complemented by a 'history from above'."
The moral economy reviewed - E. P.Thompson
Submitted by plecil on May 7 2011 17:54
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.
The making of the English working class - E. P. Thompson
Submitted by Spassmaschine on Apr 5 2011 07:59
E. P. Thompson's monumental study of the making of the English working class, and the development of its consciousness, during its formative years of 1780 to 1832.
Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism - E. P. Thompson
Thompson brilliantly explores the changing relationship to time in class society, describing the change from 'time passed' to 'time spent'; the class struggle over the creation of "the new universe of disciplined time" in factory and school.
