Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Chapters: E. P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, C. Wright Mills, Philip S. Foner, Selig Perlman, James Green, Ruth Milkman, Herbert Gutman, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Richard T. Ely, Edwin E. Witte, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Gregg Andrews, Melvyn Dubofsky, David J. Saposs, Gary Chaison, John R. Commons, Beatrice Webb, Leon Fink, Ellen Dannin, Sherry Wolf, Seymour Martin Lipset, Peter Kellman, Melech Epstein, Richard Schneirov, Bruce Nissen, Kevin Boyle, Kim Voss, Joshua Freeman, Tom Juravich, Philip Taft, Walter Galenson, Alexander Tarasov, Julius Getman, Irving Bernstein, Bruce Nelson, Tom Bramble, Rick Kuhn, David Roediger, Rachel Sherman, James A. Gross, Mick Armstrong, David Brody, Elaine Bernard, Michael Yates, Mark Starr, Paul Clark, Stanley Aronowitz, Jean Maitron, Boris Kagarlitsky, Peter Linebaugh, Thomas Sugrue, Staughton Lynd, Nelson Lichtenstein, Lizabeth Cohen, Brian Kelly, Joseph McCartin, Robert Zieger, Tore Pryser, Nina Fishman, Labor history, Jack D. Foner, Richard Hurd, Terence E. Carroll, Liz Ross, George Hilton, David Montgomery, Sandra Bloodworth, Dorothy Thompson, Henry Kraus, Charles Morris, Tom O'Lincoln, Arne Kokkvoll, Boris Ponomarev, John A. Fitch, John Thomas Dunlop, Mark Leier, Irving Abella, J. Bernard Hogg, Øyvind Bjørnson, Rick Fantasia, Alice Kessler-Harris, Brian Brivati, Joseph Rayback, Mary Blewett, Tamara Hareven, Craig Heron. Excerpt: Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (usually known as "Eric Hobsbawm" or "E. J. Hobsbawm"), CH, FBA, (born 9 June 1917) is a British Marxist historian, public intellectual, and author. His best known works include the trilogy about the long 19th century: The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875-1914. Hobsbawm was born in 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, to Leopold Percy Obstbaum and Nelly Grün, both Jewish, and he grew up in Vienna and Berlin. A clerical error at birth altered his surname from Obstbaum to Hobsbawm. Although the family lived in German-speaking countries, his parents spoke to him and his younger sister Nancy in English. His father died in 1929, and he started working as an au pair and English tutor. He became an orphan at age 14 upon the death of his mother. Subsequently, he and Nancy were adopted by his maternal aunt, Gretl, and paternal uncle, Sidney, who married and had a son named Peter. They all moved to London in 1933 where he attended St Marylebone Grammar School. Hobsbawm married twice. His first wife was Muriel Seaman, whom he married in 1943 and divorced in 1951. His second marriage was to Marlene Schwarz, with whom he has two children, Julia Hobsbawm and Andy Hobsbawm. Julia is chief executive of Hobsbawm Media and Marketing and a visiting professor of public relations at the College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He also has a son, Joshua, from a previous relationship. He is a Marxist and was a long-standing member of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain and the associated Communist Party Historians Group. He is president of Birkbeck, University of London. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1998. In 2003 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for European History since 1900 "For his brilliant analysis of the troubled history of twentieth-century Europe and for his ability to combine in-depth historical research with great literary talent." Hobsbawm joined the Sozialist