Not the Sort that Would Sit on the Doorstep”
Respectability in Pre-World War I London Neighborhoods
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11213636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen Ross (Ramapo College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Pages | 39-59 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Labor and Working-Class History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-5479 • E-ISSN: 1471-6445 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0147547900017087 |
| OpenAlex | W2012317634 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 29 |
The debate over the British labor aristocracy has been, since Eric Hobsbawm's “Labour Aristocracy in Nineteenth-Century Britain,” a litmus test of changes in the political assumptions of successive cohorts of labor historians. Hobsbawm, writing as a Marxist in the cold war era, was (and remains) convinced that “membership” in this privileged stratum was mainly a question of wages, skill, and degree of unionization. In the 1970s, under New Left impetus, working-class culture more generally began to excite more interest; scholars began to look beyond the workplace for evidence of the kinds of divisions between workers—captured in the term respectability —which Hobsbawm pointed to in work-related spheres. Earlier concerns with occupational hierarchies, wages, and workplace associations have been supplemented by studies of friendly society membership, intermarriage between occupational groups, residential patterns, thrift, recreation, and so on
Aristocracy (class · Economic history · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Recreation · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Economy and Marxism
Making the Case to Reprieve Annette Meyers
Like a Bicycle, Forever Teetering between Individualism and Collectivism
"Moving on," Men and the Changing Character of Interwar Working-Class Neighborhoods
Having Lived Close Beside Them All the Time
A contradiction in terms? migrant activists in the Sweden Democrats party
Classifying” Margarine
Respectable Men Seeking Odious Work in the Late Nineteenth Century
Friendly Societies and the Discourse of Respectability in Britain, 1825–1875
The British State and the Structure of Political Opportunity
Outsiders in the Land of Their Birth
Tho’ lost to sight, to memory dear’
As if she was my own child’
Secrecy and the city, 1870–1939
Some Thoughts on Masculinity and the ‘Representative Artisan’ in Britain, 1850‐1880
Respectable Men, Disorderly Others
Barbarous cruelty at the British Museum’
A Right Sort of Man”
Gender antagonism and class conflict
Differing gender roles
Emotion, Bodies, Sexuality, and Sex Education in Edwardian England
Humour, Satire, and Sexuality in the Culture of Early Chartism
Schundkampf von links. Eine Skizze zur sozialdemokratischen Jugendschriftenkritik vor 1914
Transplanting and Rooting Workers in London and Brussels
Worlds of labour
Outcast London
Charles Booth's London
The Foundations of the Welfare State
Popular politics and society in late Victorian Britain
Marxism, Ideology and Literature
Prostitution and Victorian Society
London Labour and the London Poor
Survival Networks
Hustling and Other Hard Work
Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution
Styles of Life, the “Labour Aristocracy” and Class Relations in Later Nineteenth Century Edinburgh
Mastered for Life
Politics, Class Structure, and the Enduring Weakness of British Social Democracy
"Will The Real Bill Banks Please Stand Up?" Towards A Role Analysis Of Mid-Victorian Working-Class Respectability
Working-Class Culture and Working-Class Politics in London, 1870-1900; Notes on the Remaking of a Working Class
School Attendance in London 1870-1914; A Social History
Elementary Schooling and the Working Classes 1860-1918
Wives and Mothers in Victorian Industry
The Working Class in Modern British History
Fierce Questions and Taunts
Women and the Poor Law in Victorian and Edwardian England
East End Underworld
Peaceable Kingdom
Peaceable Kingdom
Women United, Women Divided
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2024 (37) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |