The main historical ‘guidebooks’ of the British Industrial Revolution seems to have been written throughout the 20th century. Recent scholarship references these three classic authors and it’s important to examine their presentation of the material and contents. Henry Weisser’s British Working-class Movements and Europe (1976), G.D.H. Cole’s A Short History of the British Working Class Movement (Volume I) (1947), and E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963) are books that explicitly go into depth about political movements during the late 18th and 19th century, with both the worker’s ideologies and “class-consciousness”. The working-class groups, however, are featured differently in each book like having the accounts of actual factory workers, to only Owenites, or mainly radical workers. For a common theme between each of the books, their presentation of primary sources fails to lack a full understanding of the personal lives of workers during the Industrial Revolution. …show more content…
In his book, British Working-class Movements and Europe, Weisser is more specific in his topic where he focuses on specific revolutions and their ideas (e.g. Italy, Greek, Spain, and France). Inspired by E.P. Thompson, Weisser sheds his opinion on class-consciousness and the problems associated with it. He highlights factual information between the entirety of Europe and Britain radicalism with, for example, the treatment of workers in the United