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The construction of the underclass in midvictorian england jennifer davis 2 the peoples palace. The postbigbang city, docklands, racist hooliganism, the new underclass, trade union defeats, the mounting disparities of the northsouth divide. According to this social interpretation, the use of class terminology by the chartists was an expression of a class consciousness newly acquired by a working class movement in response to the. Studies in english working class history, 18321982 cambridge, 1983.
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