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• Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Carolyn Conley (PDF at Ohio State)

• Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Haydu (HTML at UC Press)

• The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Daniel Bivona and Roger B. Henkle (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Poor in England, 1700-1850: An Economy of Makeshifts (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), ed. by Steven King and Alannah Tomkins (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• The Great Army of London Poor: Sketches of Life and Character in a Thames-Side District (1882), by Thomas Wright (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Horrible London (from an 1889 edition; see also How the Poor Live), by George R. Sims (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• How the Poor Live (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883; see also Horrible London), by George R. Sims, illust. by Frederick Barnard (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict, by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Pinch of Poverty: Sufferings and Heroism of the London Poor (London: Isbister and Company, 1892), by Thomas Wright (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Ragged London in 1861 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861), by John Hollingshead (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Wilds of London (London: Chatto and Windus, 1874), by James Greenwood, illust. by Alfred Concanen (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• London Shadows: A Glance at the "Homes" of the Thousands (London: George Routledge and Co., 1854), by George Godwin (illustrated HTML and victorianlondon.org)

• The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by John Marriott (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• London Shadows: A Glance at the "Homes" of the Thousands (London: George Routledge and Co., 1854), by George Godwin (illustrated HTML and victorianlondon.org)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• The Heir of Redclyffe, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• Lothair, by Benjamin Disraeli (Gutenberg text)
• Lothair (3 volumes; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870), by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• Beechcroft at Rockstone, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Castle Builders (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1864), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dynevor Terrace, or, The Clue of Life, by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
• Lady Hester: or, Ursula's Narrative, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Long Vacation, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by Susan M. Johns (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by Richard Biernacki (HTML at UC Press)
• The Town Labourer, 1760-1832: The New Civilisation (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1917), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Worker Looks at History: Being Outlines of Industrial History Specially Written for Labour College Plebs classes (London: Plebs League, 1919), by Mark Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
• European Labor Aristocracies: Trade Unionism, the Hierarchy of Skill, and the Stratification of the Manual Working Class Before the First World War (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1985), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa
• The Historical Basis of Socialism in England (London: K. Paul, Trench and Co., 1883), by H. M. Hyndman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2006), by Brent Alan Shannon (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• Unequal but Fair? A Study of Class Barriers in Britain (c1996), by Peter Saunders (PDF at Civitas)

• Those Three, or, Little Wings: A Story for Girls, by Emma Marshall (HTML at Emory)

• People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Ralph W. Mathisen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Geoff Eley and Keith Nield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Class Counts (student edition, 2000), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism, and Marxism (1994), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• The Debate on Classes (1989), ed. by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Classes (1985), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Class, Crisis, and the State (1978), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Social Class in America: A Manual of Procedure for the Measurement of Social Status (originally published 1949; this edition Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1957), by W. Lloyd Warner, Marchia Meeker, and Kenneth Eells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Class Structure and Income Determination (1979), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF at Wisconsin)
• Vox Populi: Essays in the History of an Idea (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by George Boas (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (originally published 1883; added introduction dated 1951), by William Graham Sumner, contrib. by William Clinton Mullendore (Gutenberg text)
• Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), ed. by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• The Question of Caste (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1869), by Charles Sumner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord, trans. by Fredy Perlman (HTML at nothingness.org)
• The Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord, trans. by Ken Knabb (HTML at bopsecrets.org)

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