A Social History of the English Working Classes, 1815-1945

Part 1 The birth of the new society, 1815-1850: life at work; life at home; working-class protest and self-help; government intervention - factory, mine and town; government intervention - schools and churches; the problem of poverty. Part 2 Equipoise and after 1850-1900: further reform of working and living conditions; schools, churches and chapels after 1850; changing attitudes to poverty; the growth of modern unionism. Part 3 New roles for labour 1900-1914: the Labour Party and the unions before World War I; the liberal welfare reforms; class, family and the quality of life. Part 4 Labour in peace and war 1914-1945: World War I; between the wars; World War II.