Alan Johnson

Our leaders have betrayed the noble worker. Oh really?

A review of Selina Todd’s ‘The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910–2010’. The working class may disappoint radicals, says Alan Johnson, but that doesn't mean their best days are over

Walking tall: a Covent Garden market porter, London, c. 1922 [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 12 April 2014
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  • The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910–2010

    Selina Todd

    John Murray, pp. 295

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