E. P. Thompson is a towering fi gure in the fi eld of labor history,
best known for his monumental and path-breaking work, The
Making of the English Working Class. But as this collection shows,
Thompson was much more than a historian: he was a dedicated
educator of workers, a brilliant polemicist, a skilled political theorist,
and a tireless agitator for peace, against nuclear weapons,
and for a rebirth of the socialist project...