How long does it take to read The Making of the English Working Class?
E. P. Thompson
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson takes about 15 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 35 minutes
A long haul
First published 1963. 850 pages, about 233,750 words.
32 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Thompson turned history on its head by focusing on the political agency of the people, whom historians had treated as anonymous masses.
Subjects: History, Labor, Labor and laboring classes, Social conditions, Working class, Arbeiterklasse
