1. Introduction

Part I. Power and the People: Politics and the Social Order: 2. The languages of popular politics: from radicalism to Liberalism

3. Class, populism and socialism: Liberalism and after

Part II. Moralising the Market: Work and the Social Order: 4. Civilising capital: class and the moral discources of labour

5. Buiding the union: 'the gospel of absolute and perfect organisation'

Part III. Custom, History, Language: Popular Culture and the Social Order

6. Custom and the symbolic structure of the social order

7. The sense of the past

8. The people's English

Part IV. Kingdoms of the Mind: The Imaginary Constitution of the Social Order: 9. Investigating popular art

10. The broadside ballad

11. The voice of the people? The character and development of dialect literature

12. Dialect and the making of social identity

13. Stages of class: popular theatre and the geography of belonging

14. Summary and conclusion: the making of the English working class before 1914

Appendices.