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There are 36 books in this booklist
£20.00 hardback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781526173096 | ISBN 10: 1526173093
In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a 'working-class hero'. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him, he offered a robust critique of the government and provided workers with an authentic v ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804190081 | ISBN 10: 180419008x
No Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian’s experiences of poverty, queerness, mental health, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of s ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780745341026 | ISBN 10: 0745341020
Who cares about working-class queers in Britain today? Are queers marginal to the study of class, and are the working-classes marginal to queer studies? Yvette Taylor critically engages with the experience of working-class queers through cycles of cr ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780750999021 | ISBN 10: 0750999020
In this shockingly raw but beautifully written book, Michael Handrick unpicks the toxic narratives and myths built up by society of what it means to be a man, gay and working class. Moving through time and memory, from a rural council estate surround ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780751582192 | ISBN 10: 0751582190
The incredible Sunday Times bestseller.
‘Essential...A complex blend of overexcited Adrian Mole-like anecdotes mixed with shocking moments of racism and insights into Muslim religious practices’ Sunday Times
‘Authentic, fu ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781551528779 | ISBN 10: 1551528770
A powerful, personal critique of capitalist patriarchy as seen through the eyes of a queer radical.
Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social, economic, and sexual lives. By examining the politics of gender, environment ... more
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£27.45 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781800857162 | ISBN 10: 1800857160
Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to ‘save’ working-class women from themselves.
The book examines how the work of the Liverpool Vigilance Association was ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784703486 | ISBN 10: 1784703486
The ground-breaking, firebrand playwright who changed our cultural and social landscape and put working-class lives centre stage.
On 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a nineteen-year-old bus dri ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780745343112 | ISBN 10: 0745343112
Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change, economic disaster and Erdogan's ambition to impose 'one-man rule' have shaken the foundations of Turkish political life, but what does this mean for workers?&nbs ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781789464054 | ISBN 10: 1789464056
It is 1937 in a northern mill-town and a class of twelve- and thirteen-year-old girls are writing about their lives, their world, and the things that matter to them. They tell of cobbled streets and crowded homes; the Coronation festivities and holid ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913406639 | ISBN 10: 1913406636
"Powerful, vital and visionary"(Jimmy McGovern)
Something unusual happened in Britain during the spring of 2020. As the nation went into lockdown to fight a killer pandemic our view of what constituted a hero changed. Suddenly celebrity busine ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780300257847 | ISBN 10: 0300257848
This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century.
Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people re ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629638232 | ISBN 10: 1629638234
History is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals—it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbiting Earth, workers and ordinary people everywhere have walked out, sat down, risen up, and fought bac ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529103380 | ISBN 10: 152910338x
“Everyone has their price. It’s just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.”
Single mum. ‘Stain on society’. Caught in a poverty trap.
It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910170625 | ISBN 10: 1910170623
A fascinating trip around the side streets and back to backs of working class cinema, exploring the British New Wave kitchen sink dramas of the 50s and 60s, such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey and This Sporting Life, to Kes, Q ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781908906403 | ISBN 10: 1908906405
Smashing It celebrates the exceptional works and words of 31 leading working-class artists in Britain. Featuring writing, lyrics and images by Wiley, Maxine Peake, Malorie Blackman, Riz Ahmed and many more, it also includes reflections from artists o ... more
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£6.00 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781604881073 | ISBN 10: 1604881070
"Without understanding the devastation of the lives of working-class families in regions like West Virginia, and the vast increase in class inequality since the 2008 crisis, you can’t understand what’s happening in the United States."
A ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785943744 | ISBN 10: 178594374x
All roads lead home.
‘After my knighthood was announced, a woman from the BBC came to Glasgow to interview me. We sat down in a lovely hotel in a nice part of town, and she hit me with her first question: “This must mean a lot to you, with y ... more
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£5.95 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780993224720 | ISBN 10: 0993224725
This book tells the dramatic stories of Manchester women who campaigned for social change and progress in the years between 1914 and 1945. It includes women who: campaigned during the First World War for a just and lasting peace that would prevent ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911585374 | ISBN 10: 1911585371
"In July 2016, a little over a month after the Brexit vote, Nikesh Shukla, the man behind The Good Immigrant, tweeted:
Someone should do a Good Immigrant-style state of the nation book of essays by writers from working class backgrounds.
Ou ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447344186 | ISBN 10: 1447344189
Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, ye ... more
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£30.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786630650 | ISBN 10: 1786630656
A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century.
In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain’s disadvantaged black working class. From the development of a small black pres ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781447328483 | ISBN 10: 1447328485
The shock Brexit result highlighted a worrying trend: underemployed white men and women who have seen their standard of living fall, their communities disintegrate and their sense of value, function and inclusion diminish, desperately want a mainstre ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784783778 | ISBN 10: 1784783773
A compelling investigation into the myth and reality of working-class life in contemporary Britain.
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780227801 | ISBN 10: 1780227809
The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation. �In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the e ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300212358 | ISBN 10: 0300212356
This magnificently illustrated peoples history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own.
Spanning more than four centuries, from t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910448090 | ISBN 10: 1910448095
My Lifes Battles is one of the first true working-class autobiographies, the story of Will Thorne, who helped to make a better world for ordinary people. Thornes life story is a journey from tenements and factories to the corridors of power and the ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408831632 | ISBN 10: 1408831635
The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson's great-grandmother Winnie's ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and an ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848548824 | ISBN 10: 1848548826
The twentieth century experienced by over 75% of Britons had little to do with the one we've been taught. The People tells OUR story for the first time.
The Sunday Times bestseller.
'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or backgro ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447309956 | ISBN 10: 1447309952
While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society's ills. This unique book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St Anns estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349005485 | ISBN 10: 0349005486
An urgent, uncompromising and heartfelt insider's account of what it is to be poor and working-class in the modern West.
Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a foo ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141395456 | ISBN 10: 0141395451
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844088027 | ISBN 10: 1844088022
Reissued with a stunning new jacket design, the Virago classic about motherhood for working class women at the turn of the last century
'I was married at twenty and a mother of three by twenty-three . . . When I look back at the first three ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844088010 | ISBN 10: 1844088014
'I was born in Bethnal Green ...a tiny scrap of humanity. I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me ...When I was ten years old I began to earn my own living.'
Told in the distinctive and memorable voices of working cl ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780300153651 | ISBN 10: 0300153651
Now in its second edition, this landmark book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century.
Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jon ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844671458 | ISBN 10: 1844671453
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new working-class history pioneered by E.P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the Unit ... more
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