Work and revolution in France : the language of labor from the Old Regime to 1848 / William H. Sewell, Jr

Sewell, William H. Jr. (1940-)

ISBN 10: 0521299519 / ISBN 13: 9780521299510

Published by Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1980

About this Item

Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. 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. Working class France History. Labour and labouring classes France History. Values. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Work and revolution in France : the language of labor from the Old Regime to 1848 / William H. Sewell, Jr
• Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521299519
• ISBN 13: 9780521299510
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

Sewell synthesizes the material on the social history of the French labor movement from its formative period to the first half of the 19th century. Centers on the Revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848.