The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England

The post-Chartist period saw an easing of class tensions and the growth of a reformist working class. Using evidence based upon the cotton districts of north-west England, the author shows that enhanced socio-political stability owed much to economic restabilisation in his book The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England (originally published in 1985). This book examines new and neglected areas of investigation, including the interplay between class and ethnicity and the insti