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EP Thompson

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…
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…

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.

The making of the English working class - E. P. Thompson

E. P. Thompson's monumental study of the making of the English working class, and the development of…
Treadmills old & new - gym & prison

Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism - E. P. Thompson

Thompson brilliantly explores the changing relationship to time in class society, describing the…

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