A model for urban history studies. Utilizing the current techniques of quantitative measurements but without sacrificing any of the time-tested tools of the profession, [Scott] has traced the impact of industrialization and the development of class-consciousness among the French artisan glassworkers in the late 19th century… An absorbing story.

- Frank Fox, History

An enlightening addition to the growing American contribution to the history of France's turbulent Third Republic.

- David H. Pinkney, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

An important book, well written and thoroughly researched. Its rather narrow focus belies its conceptual breadth and the impact of this kind of historical research on our understanding of the laboring population's experience of industrialization.

- Theresa M. McBride, Journal of Social History

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This book is superb social history, one of the most important recent studies of French industrialization.

- John Merriman, Social History

This award-winning study analyzes in close detail the experiences of glassworkers as mechanization transformed their trade from a highly skilled art to a semiskilled occupation. Arguing that changes in the organization of work altered the lifestyle and political outlook of the glassworker, Joan Scott uses local archival materials and demographic records to reconstruct the experience of ordinary workingmen.
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Introduction 1. Carmaux, 1850-1890 2. The Craft of the Glassworker 3. Glassworkers and Miners: A Contrast 4. Mechanization 5. Socialism 6. The Strike of 1895 7. New Glassworkers and Old, 1896-1914 Epilogue: Three Portraits Appendix Bibliography Notes Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674354418
Publisert
1980-10-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
308 gr
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
133 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Joan Wallach Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams and the Joan Kelly prizes of the American Historical Association.