Work and Revolution in France The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848

Name: Work and Revolution in France The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848
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ISBN: 9780521299510

ISBN-10: 0521299519

ISBN-13: 9780521299510

Edition: 1980

Authors: William H. Sewell, William H. jr. Sewell

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Work and Revolution in France is particularly appropriate for students of French history interested in the crucial revolutions that took place in 1789, 1830, and 1848. Sewell has reconstructed the artisans' world from the corporate communities of the old regime, through the revolutions in 1789 and 1830, to the socialist experiments of 1848. Recent research has revealed that the most important class struggles took place in craft workshops, not in 'dark satanic mills'. Threatened less by the rise of the factory than by the disorder and competition of the emerging capitalist system, French craftsmen responded by forming labor organizations, mounting strikes, and eventually joining forces in a…

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List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/31/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

William H. Sewell Jr. is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of three previous books, including Work and Revolution in France and A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution.



Preface



Introduction: social history and the language of labor



Mechanical arts and the corporate idiom



Journeymen's brotherhoods



The abolition of privilege



From gens de mTtier to sans-culottes



A revolution in property



Industrial society



Workers' corporations



The July revolution and the emergence of class consciousness



The paradoxes of labor



The revolution of 1848



Conclusion: the dialectic of revolution


Notes


Bibliography


Index