Thomas Wright (social commentator)
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Thomas Wright was an English
social commentator.
Wright's essays on social commentary were published in three volumes, Some Habits and Customs of the Working Classes (1867), The Great Unwashed (1868), and Our New Masters (1873).
England
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social commentator.
Wright's essays on social commentary were published in three volumes, Some Habits and Customs of the Working Classes (1867), The Great Unwashed (1868), and Our New Masters (1873).
Further reading
- A. J. Reid, ‘Intelligent artisans and aristocrats of labour: the essays of Thomas Wright’, in J. Winter (ed.), The Working Class in Modern British History: Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling (Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 171–86.