Author: Gray, Robert Q.
Title: The Labour Aristocracy in Victorian Edinburgh
Description: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1976. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, x, 220 pp.. Textual graphs & tables. Some top-page-edge soil, minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Edinburgh in the later nineteenth century; Industrial structures;Wages & standards of living; The community & social status; Opportunities & aspirations; The meanings of 'respectability'; The mid-Victorian working-class movement; The emergence of a labourist working-class movement 1884 - 1900; The labour aristocracy & reformism: Appendix I: The interpretation of Census Occupation Tables; Appendix II: Occupational classification

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Working class, Labour history, Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain, Artisans, Class formation, Labor