Anastasia Riabchuk
«Making» and «Decline» of the Working Class (An Overview)
Anastasiya Riabchuk gives an overview of British and French publications on the history of the working class inspired by the classic work of Edward P. Thompson "The Making of the English Working Class"—the book that signalled the "cultural turn" in Marxism. Having introduced the most important anglo- and francophone publications about the everyday life of workers, suffering and the culture of poverty, the Author argues (hat post-Soviet Ukraine severely lacks an Edward Thompson of its own.