The French Worker
Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era
Mark Traugott(Editor)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 25. March 1993
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-520-07931-1 (ISBN)
Description
This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives spanned the 19th century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. These stories convey the ambitions, hardships and reversals of ordinary people struggling to gain a measure of respectability. The workers' livelihoods are diverse: chair-maker, embroiderer, joiner, mason, silk weaver, machinist and seamstress. Their stories of daily activities, work life and popular politics are filled with lively, often poignant moments. We learn of dismal, unsanitary housing, disease, workplace accidents and terrible hardship, especially for the children of the poor. The autobiographies also illuminate the relationship between changes in working conditions and the forms of political participation and protest that occurred as the 19th century drew to a close.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-07931-1 (9780520079311)
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Person
Mark Traugott is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of Emile Durkheim on Institutional Analysis (1978) and Armies of the Poor (1985).
Content
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Jacques Etienne Bede: A Worker in 1820
2. Suzanne Voilquin:
Recollections of a Daughter of the People
3. Agricol Perdiguier: Memoirs of a Compagnon
4. Martin Nadaud: Memoirs of Leonard,
a Former Mason's Assistant
5. Norbert Truquin: Memoirs and Adventures of a
Proletarian in Times of Revolution
6. Jean-Baptiste Dumay: Memoirs of a Militant
Worker from Le Creusot
7. Jeanne Bouvier: My Memoirs
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Jacques Etienne Bede: A Worker in 1820
2. Suzanne Voilquin:
Recollections of a Daughter of the People
3. Agricol Perdiguier: Memoirs of a Compagnon
4. Martin Nadaud: Memoirs of Leonard,
a Former Mason's Assistant
5. Norbert Truquin: Memoirs and Adventures of a
Proletarian in Times of Revolution
6. Jean-Baptiste Dumay: Memoirs of a Militant
Worker from Le Creusot
7. Jeanne Bouvier: My Memoirs