Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Editorial Note xi
Introduction. Rethinking the Chartist Movement: Dorothy Thompson (1923-2011) Stephen Roberts xiii
Part I Interpreting Chartism 7
2 The Languages of Class 13
3 Who Were 'the People' in 1842? 21
4 Women Chartists 43
5 'The Question "What is a Chartist?" Answered': Chartist Tracts 49
6 Chartist Autobiographies 57
Part II A Local Study
7 Chartism in the Industrial Areas 67
8 'The Dignity of Chartism': Halifax as a Chartist Centre (with E. P. Thompson) 73
Part III The Leaders of the People
9 'The Most Well-Loved Man': Feargus O'Connor 129
10 'A Radical until the End of His Days' George Julian Harney 133
11 'The Best-Remembered Chartist' Ernest Jones 139
12 'Two of the Most Influential of Radical Voices' John Fielden Joseph Sturge 141
Part IV Repercussions
13 The Chartists in 1848 151
14 The British State and Chartism 167
15 The Post-Chartist Decades 177
Part V Looking Back
16 Reflections on Marxist Teleology 189
Further Reading 197
Index 199