Clark is part of the broader feminist perspective alongside Joan Scott, Barbara Taylor, Sally Alexander. Clark does not want to force female labourers into the established narrative, she seeks to write privileging gender. She furthers Thompson’s definition of the ‘working-class’ and his historical writings, regarding the emergent of the British working-class-consciousness by honing on the effect gender roles had on the industrial regions. She intersects his approach by analysing the development of the working-class in terms of gender, arguing it played a “profound” role. She posits that the making of the working-class was closely aligned to the political radical movement that sought to unite the class-bound idea of gender. Clark is on a similar mission to rescue gender from the ‘condescension of posterity’ in the Thompsonian process of class formation Agency and consciousness are so intimately intertwined with class as a historical phenomenon. Thompson puts forward a counterapproach to the economistic notations of Marxism, the defence argued by structuralists, one example being Louis Althusser, who was keen to place an emphasis on scientific aspects of Marxism. ‘The working-class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time,’ Thompson argues that it ‘was present at its own making,’ demonstrating how class was a socio-historical process and relationship. This contrasts greatly to Marx who viewed the peasants as a passive force, equating them to a ‘sackful of potatoes’ thus negating their agency. For conventional economic historians, the economic base is closely credited with human progress, Thompson in contrast goes against the grain, but theoretically he does not offer a viable alternative to the base-superstructure model that Orthodox Marxists posit. From the Critique of Political Economy and other comments made by Marx, conventional Marxist historians take the base-superstructure model at face value, they do not consider the fact that he himself did not explicitly state that the superstructure could not affect the base. A refined focus shows Thompson adhering to a Marxist framework but distinguishes himself from structuralist determinism in favour of incorporating human agency.>