French Worker Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era

Name: French Worker Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era
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ISBN: 9780520079328

ISBN-10: 0520079329

ISBN-13: 9780520079328

Edition: 1993

Authors: Mark Traugott

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This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions, hardships, and reversals of ordinary people struggling to gain a measure of respectability. The workers' livelihoods are diverse: chair-maker, embroiderer, joiner, mason, silk weaver, machinist, seamstress. Their stories of daily activities, work life, and popular politics are filled with lively, often poignant moments. We learn of dismal, unsanitary housing; of disease; workplace accidents;…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/25/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Worker in 1820




Recollections of a Daughter of the People




Memoirs of a Compagnon




Memoirs of Leonard, a Former Mason's Assistant




Memoirs and Adventures of a Proletarian in Times of Revolution




Memoirs of a Militant Worker from Le Creusot




My Memoirs