E.P. Thompson

British Marxist historian who wrote The Making of the English Working Class — the founding text of 'history from below' — and developed the concept of the moral economy of the crowd.

The Making of the English Working Class: the working class was not created by industrialism as a passive object but made itself through experience, culture, and struggle. History from below: history of ordinary people, not just elites. The moral economy of the English crowd: food riots were not irrational hunger but appeals to a traditional moral framework of fair prices — a forerunner of James C. Scott.