In this article I re-visit E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class to find resources for doing historically-grounded studies of class and collective action. Building on Thompson's work, I argue that historical analyses of collective actors should be both sociologically robust and dramatically persuasive. I begin by reviewing Thompson's portrayal of class formation in The Making, which I describe as a form of "collective biography". I discuss some limits of collective biography, including the problems of discontinuity, narrative central subject, and reification. I compare Thompson's class analysis with that of his contemporary historian Barrington Moore, Jr., as a way of highlighting the problem of representing class actors....
This project speaks to those with broad research interests in rhetorical studies, the ethnography of...
This dissertation explores two research areas, one in the sociology of collective action and one in ...
As well as a work of history, E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Class (London: Gollancz, 19...
In this article I re-visit E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class to find resources...
In this article I re-visit E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class to find resources...
More than twenty-five years after its publication The Making of the English Working Class remains a ...
The article explores the wide-ranging meaning and importance of argument in E.P. Thompson's The Maki...
This article will try to shed light on some of the factors that conditioned the production The Makin...
This article will try to shed light on some of the factors that conditioned the production The Makin...
Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar uma análise sobre a categoria “classes sociais” e a noção d...
During the 1980s and 1990s, E.P. Thompson’s once-celebrated approach to social history came to be re...
The article explores the wide-ranging meaning and importance of argument in E.P. Thompson's The Maki...
This article deals with one of the foremost but frequently neglected issues raised by E.P. Thompson´...
The article focus the use of the concept of populism and the analysis of related phenomena in the wo...
Fifty years after the publication of his groundbreaking study, The Making of the English Working Cla...
This project speaks to those with broad research interests in rhetorical studies, the ethnography of...
This dissertation explores two research areas, one in the sociology of collective action and one in ...
As well as a work of history, E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Class (London: Gollancz, 19...
In this article I re-visit E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class to find resources...
In this article I re-visit E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class to find resources...
More than twenty-five years after its publication The Making of the English Working Class remains a ...
The article explores the wide-ranging meaning and importance of argument in E.P. Thompson's The Maki...
This article will try to shed light on some of the factors that conditioned the production The Makin...
This article will try to shed light on some of the factors that conditioned the production The Makin...
Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar uma análise sobre a categoria “classes sociais” e a noção d...
During the 1980s and 1990s, E.P. Thompson’s once-celebrated approach to social history came to be re...
The article explores the wide-ranging meaning and importance of argument in E.P. Thompson's The Maki...
This article deals with one of the foremost but frequently neglected issues raised by E.P. Thompson´...
The article focus the use of the concept of populism and the analysis of related phenomena in the wo...
Fifty years after the publication of his groundbreaking study, The Making of the English Working Cla...
This project speaks to those with broad research interests in rhetorical studies, the ethnography of...
This dissertation explores two research areas, one in the sociology of collective action and one in ...
As well as a work of history, E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Class (London: Gollancz, 19...