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A History of Work in Britain, 1880-1950. .

Publication: Albion
Publication Date: 22-SEP-02 		Format: Online - approximately 816 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A History of Work in Britain, 1880-1950. .(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Arthur J. McIvor. A History of Work in Britain, 1880-1950. (Social History in Perspective). New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xii, 276. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-59616-1.

A volume in the Social History in Perspective series, Arthur McIvor's History of Work provides a clear and useful introduction to what is now a vast literature. Academic study of work and the workplace emerged only in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the broader development of social history. Arguably, the most famous early example of this genre was E. P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class. Since Thompson's influential work, however, historians have vastly expanded the field, moving from the study of changing forms of work and the work process to examinations of employers...

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