We celebrate the launch of Jonas Marvin's debut book The Breaking of the English Working Class 18/09/2026 6.30pm @ Drop City Books

Drop City Books Author Party, Jonas Marvin, author of The Breaking of the English Working Class.

📅 Date: 18th SEPTEMBER 2026

DOORS - 6.30pm

EVENT START - 7:00pm

📍 Venue: Drop City Books, 74-78 Piccadilly, Hanley, ST1 1HX

⚡️NOTE THIS TICKET DOES NOT INCLUDE A COPY OF THE BOOK

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jonas Marvin is a writer, researcher and organiser based in Stoke on Trent. He co-hosts the Life of the Party podcast and blogs at Marx’s Dream Journal. He is a rare combination of really clever, really kind and really brave. When he says change is possible we believe him. We are delighted to host Jonas at Drop City Books for the massive celebration of his book that he deserves.

ABOUT THE BOOK

After a decades-long absence, class is once again central to our understanding of ailing Britain. But what does it mean to be working class today? Retelling the story of the working class over the last forty years — from Thatcher’s war against the unions to New Labour neoliberalism – Marvin shows how power and capital have combined to shatter a radical identity into many parts: white, male, northerner, homeowner, immigrant, unemployed, disabled. These fragments are then set in conflict against each other. Blending political analysis with an account of his own experiences of class in London and the rustbelt Midlands, Marvin shows how the working class have been demonised and organised for abandonment. The Breaking of the English Working Class tries to understand experiences of class today so that we can transcend class altogether tomorrow.

"From the potbanks of the Potteries to the gig economy’s algorithmic discipline, from mass unemployment to managed abandonment, Jonas Marvin charts the tragedy of the British working-class and its decomposition — and possible revival — with impressive empirical and theoretical rigour. This is socialist history at its best, a history that seeks to retrieve from the rubble of past defeats the means of future victories." Richard Seymour, Author of Disaster Nationalism

"“A profound navigation of heartbreak, fury, and radical horizon, The Breaking of the English Working Class announces Jonas Marvin as a vital political voice – as well as a beautiful writer." China Mieville, Author of A Spectre Haunting

ACCESSIBILITY INFO:

Please get in touch (hello@dropcitybooks.com) if you have any specific access requirements, we will always do our best to accomodate them.

The shop is wheelchair accessible, with a double wide front door.

This event will involve sitting on a chair, with comfort breaks whenever you need them. We encourage standing up and stretching, fidgeting, wiggling around, this isn't school, humans need to move.

The toilets are on the same floor as the venue and are gender neutral. They are not fully wheelchair accesible, we're sorry it's not ideal, but we do have access to our neighbour's wheelchair accesible toilet across the pedestrianised street.

There will be amplified sound at low levels.

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