Fighting Words: Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9781501717833
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Working class -- England -- History -- 19th century; Social conflict -- England -- History -- 19th century;

A key component of social life, discourse mediates the processes of class formation and social conflict. Drawing on dialogic theory and building on the work of E. P. Thompson, Marc W. Steinberg argues for the importance of incorporating discursive...


Marc W. Steinberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Smith College.

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