Labour / Le Travail 17. 1986.

Abstract:

WIDELY-PRAISED, this text explores the ideas of those nineteenth-century figures whose political and economic commentary related to the poor: Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Paine, Thomas Robert Malthus, Friedrich Engels, William Cobbett, Thomas Carlyle, and Henry Mayhew. It thus relates directly to the now fashionable discussions of “the language of class,” and closes, appropriately, with the ways in which that language was used in the fictional works about the poor. Max Beer, A History of British Socialism.

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