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Working-class Formation

Working-Class Formation is a historical sociological process denoting the emergence and development of a distinct social class characterized by its reliance on wage labor, shared conditions of industrial employment, collective consciousness, and socio-political organization during the Industrial Revolution.

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Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs.

John C Hagan, Paul Willis · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1996 · 5.8K citations

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Labor and Monopoly Capital

Harry Braverman · Monthly Review · 1974 · 5.3K citations

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The Making of the English Working Class.

Neil J. Smelser, E. P. Thompson · History and Theory · 1966 · 4.3K citations

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The Making of the English Working Class

Bernard Semmel, E. P. Thompson · The American Historical Review · 1964 · 4.3K citations

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From The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)

Friedrich Engels · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2009 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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  1. DR
    Diane Reay

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 991 citations

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  2. LB
    Lillian B. Rubin

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    6 publications · 642 citations

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  3. NP
    Ngai Pun

    University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

    6 publications · 359 citations

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  4. MS
    Mike Savage

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 567 citations

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  5. RS
    Richard Sandbrook

    University of Toronto, Canada

    5 publications · 155 citations

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Institutions

436

  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    10 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    452 citations

  3. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    309 citations

  4. The Open University

    Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    276 citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    816 citations

  6. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    322 citations

  7. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    135 citations

  8. York University

    Toronto, Canada

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    256 citations

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  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 111 publications · 10.8K citations

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  2. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 61 publications · 8.6K citations

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  3. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

    47 publications · 9.9K citations

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  4. Labour / Le Travail

    31 publications · 1.2K citations

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  5. The Economic History Review

    24 publications · 2.6K citations

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