127th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2013): 50 Years On: <em>The Making of the English Working Class</em> and the Work of E. P. Thompson

AHA Session 189
Labor and Working-Class History Association 7

Saturday, January 5, 2013: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Roosevelt Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans)

Chair:

James A. Epstein, Vanderbilt University

Topics:

E. P. Thompson and the Writing of South Asian Intellectual History
Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California, Irvine

E.P Thompson: Historian as Political Activist, Political Activist as Historian
Dennis Dworkin, University of Nevada, Reno

Working-Class Agency, Past and Present
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

E.P. Thompson, Big History, and the Future of Cultural History
Lara H. Kriegel, Indiana University Bloomington

Session Abstract

The object of our roundtable is to consider Thompson’s classic work in terms of present historical concerns. The point is not merely to celebrate his achievement but to think about a body of scholarly work and a career of political activism as it impinges (or not) on our thinking and commitments.

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50 Years On: The Making of the English Working Class and the Work of E. P. Thompson