An account of the cataclysmic changes from one way of life to another. Edward Thompson. The Making of the English Working Class.

The social, cultural and economic milieu of pre-industrial Britain is important to help us relate to the underlying morality that governed the economy before the advent of capitalism. It was not only an economic change for them but it was an elongated moral transition as well. From the beginning the working class Britons had an unfavorable perception of the changes brought about by capitalism and took actions to counterattack its adverse effects. In the text, …

…breakthrough of the free market economy clearly exemplifies that the transition from bread-nexus of the eighteenth century to the cash-nexus following the course of industrial revolution has had many adverse effects. Thompson's concentration has been on the ideas and activities of ordinary workers. He has deeply stressed upon the conflict between the interests of ordinary people and of the elites who govern them. Bibliography Thompson, Edward. The Making of the English Working Class. Canada: Penguin, 1968.