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143. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 201. On Wilkes and
Wyvill, see Ian R. Christie, Wilkes, Wyvill and Reform: The Parliamentary Reform
Movement in British Politics, 1760–1785 (London: Macmillan, 1962).
144. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 781.
145. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 782.
146. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 782.
147. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 783.
148. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 785.
149. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 800. Thompson adds:
“Perhaps 500 people were prosecuted for the production and sale of the ‘unstamped.’
From 1816 (indeed, from 1792,) until 1836 the contest involved, not only the editors,
booksellers, and printers, but also many hundreds of newsvendors, hawkers, and vol-
untary agents” (p. 801).
150. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 788.
151. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 789.
152. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 790, 805.
153. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Classs, 791.
154. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 805.
155. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 791.
156. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 222–23.
157. Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture,
edited by J. M. Bernstein (London: Routledge, 1991), 90.
158. Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (New
York: Continuum, 1991), 121; emphasis added.
159. Carey, “Abolishing the Old Spirit World,” 86.
160. Carey, “Abolishing the Old Spirit World,” 87.