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The Making of the English Working Class

Thompson, E.P · London: Victor Gollancz · 1963

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This is behind the Luddites’ sixteen-pound ‘Great Enoch’ hammers and the Yorkshire raids in the book’s account of workers fighting the machines that had stripped the value from their craft.

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Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. (The 'Great Enoch' sledgehammers and Yorkshire raids.)