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1 online resource (x, 340 pages) |
| Summary |
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. Research has revealed that the most important class struggles took place in craft workshops, not in 'dark satanic mills'. In the 1830s and 1840s, workers combined the collectivism of the corporate guild tradition with the egalitarianism of the revolutionary tradition, producing a distinct artisan form of socialism and class consciousness that climaxed in the Parisian Revolution of 1848. The book follows artisans into their everyday experience of work, fellowship, and struggles and places their history in the context of wider political, economic, and social developments. Sewell analyzes the 'language of labor' in the broadest sense, dealing not only with what the workers and others wrote and said about labour but with the whole range of institutional conventions, economic practices, social struggles, ritual gestures, customs, and actions that gave the workers' world a comprehensive shape |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-328) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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| Subject |
Working class -- France -- History
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Artisans -- France -- History
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Artisans
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Working class
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Revoluties.
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Arbeidersbeweging.
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Klassenstrijd.
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Travailleurs -- France -- Histoire.
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0521234425 |
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9780521234429 |
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0521299519 |
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9780521299510 |
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9780511583711 |
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0511583710 |
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