Introduction: The middle-class in nineteenth century Manchester / Alan J. Kidd
Classes and police in Manchester, 1829-1880 / S.J. Davies
Outcast Manchester / Alan J. Kidd
The anti-Semitism of tolerance / Bill Williams
Culture, philanthropy, and the Manchester middle-classes / Michael E. Rose
Art and philanthropy / M. Harrison
Class and cultural production in the industrial city / B.E. Maidment
"Healthy reading" / Margaret Beetham
Representations of the Manchester working class in fiction, 1850-1900 / T. Thomas.