Work and revolution in France : the language of labor from the Old Regime to 1848 / William H. Sewell, Jr
1980, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #424079
ISBN: 0521234425
Physical description; x, 340 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-328) and index. Contents; Introduction : social history and the language of labor -- Mechanical arts and the corporate idiom -- Journeymen's brotherhoods -- The abolition of privilege -- From gens de métier to sans-culottes -- 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. Subjects; Working class France History. Artisans France History. Labor and laboring classes France History. Artisans. Working class. France. Labour. Labour movements.
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