Marcelo Badaró Mattos
Marcelo Badaró Mattos Marcelo Badaró Mattos is Professor of Brazilian History at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His main interests are related to labour history, including slavery and ―free‖ labour, in different moments of nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of several books including E. P. Thompson e a tradição de crítica ativa do materialismo histórico, Escravizados e livres: experiências comuns na formação da classe trabalhadora carioca, 1850-1910 and Novos e velhos sindicalismos no Rio de Janeiro, 1955-1988. He has also edited several books and published many articles, some of them linked in this page.
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This article intends to reflect upon the context in which E.P. Thompson wrote his most important work, The Making of the English Working Class, whose first edition appeared in 1963. The text links Thompson's personal experience, his political militancy and his historiographical activity. It highlights the fact that Thompson used the dialogue with contemporary workers within the adult education courses he taught, to construct the history of their formation as a social class in the 18 th and 19th centuries. It also shows the reception of the book, particularly among Brazilian historians.
This article intends to reflect upon the context in which E.P. Thompson wrote his most important work, The Making of the English Working Class, whose first edition appeared in 1963. The text links Thompson's personal experience, his political militancy and his historiographical activity. It highlights the fact that Thompson used the dialogue with contemporary workers within the adult education courses he taught, to construct the history of their formation as a social class in the 18 th and 19th centuries. It also shows the reception of the book, particularly among Brazilian historians.