Taking the Hard Road Life Course in French and German Workers' Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization

Name: Taking the Hard Road Life Course in French and German Workers' Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization
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ISBN: 9780807844977

ISBN-10: 0807844977

ISBN-13: 9780807844977

Edition: 1995

Authors: Mary Jo Maynes

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Taking the Hard Road is an engaging history of growing up in working-class families in France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution. Based on a reading of ninety autobiographical accounts of childhood and adolescence, the book explores the far-reaching historical transformations associated with the emergence of modern industrial capitalism. According to Mary Jo Maynes, the aspects of private life revealed in these accounts played an important role in historical development by actively shaping the authors' social, political, and class identities. The stories told in these memoirs revolve around details of everyday life: schooling, parent-child relations, adolescent sexuality, early…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/22/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.990



Acknowledgments



Surveying the Terrain Autobiography, Life Course, and the History of Class Identities in Nineteenth-Century Europe


Transition to Adulthood



Notebooks from the Road How Workers Became Autobiographers



Directions Learned in School



Leaving Childhood Behind



Setting a Course



Conclusion Autobiography and History


Notes


Bibliography


Index