Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 1848 and the meaning of labour -- 2 Work and the production of subjectivity -- 3 The social sciences and the working classes -- 1 The post-revolutionary context -- 1.1 The 1831-32 fragment -- 1.2 Completing the French revolution -- 1.3 The rise of the "social question" -- 1.4 Doctrinaire liberalism -- 1.4.1 Social powers -- 1.4.2 Capacity-based government -- 1.5 Saint-Simonianism: between sociology and socialism -- 1.5.1 The sociology of association
Part I Objects: Work and the social sciences -- 2 Epidemics and subaltern classes -- 2.1 The new barbarians: genealogy of a metaphor -- 2.2 A different race: the dangerous classes -- 2.3 The disease of civilisation -- 2.4 Cholera and the genesis of the social sciences -- 2.5 The epidemic as a social question -- 2.6 The moral and political sciences -- 3 Liberalism and the science of society -- 3.1 The development of social research -- 3.1.1 Poverty: work as the limit of charity -- 3.1.2 Pauperism and the British hell -- 3.1.3 Tocqueville and the new "industrial class"
3.1.4 Work as punishment and reward -- 3.2 The dangerous class and the working one: producing a labour force -- 3.2.1 Separating the wheat from the chaff -- 3.2.2 From charity to patronage -- 3.3 Doctor Villermé and the epistemology of the social sciences -- 3.3.1 The public health movement and the "work" of cholera -- 3.3.2 The "physical and moral conditions" of the working class -- 4 Towards the "citizen-worker" -- 4.1 The employment record book and the governing of manpower -- 4.1.1 A passport within national borders -- 4.1.2 Policing workers' mobility -- 4.2 The birth of labour law
4.2.1 The law on child labour -- 4.2.2 The juridical codification of wage labour -- 4.2.3 The "objectivation" of the working subject -- 4.3 From liberal enquiries to working-class and socialist ones -- Part II Subjects: Work as politics -- 5 The rise of the working class -- 5.1 The labour movement's first word? -- 5.2 Ouvriers -- 5.3 The artisans' last stand -- 5.4 Fragments of a working-class discourse -- 6 The political subjectivation of labour -- 6.1 Republican-social discourse: the "popular class" -- 6.2 The Société des amis du peuple: "professional" proletarians
6.3 The Écho de la fabrique and the language of association -- 6.4 The Saint-Simonian movement and the "poorest and most numerous class" -- 6.5 The work of utopia -- 6.6 The labour movement and the borders of politics -- Conclusion -- Index
