An exceedingly perceptively written review and overview of E.P.Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class" can be read here.
For those interested in the origin, development, and reproduction of class consciousness. Capital fights this class consciousness tooth and claw. And in the US it seems to have attained a great measure of success in this endeavor.
Perhaps we need an 'Unmaking of the American Working Class" to understand what has happened.
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