The French Worker

Author : Mark Traugott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079328
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Worker written by Mark Traugott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-03-25 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly 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, seamstress. Their stories of daily activities, work life, and popular politics are filled with lively, often poignant moments. We learn of dismal, unsanitary housing; of disease; workplace accidents; and terrible hardship, especially for the children of the poor. We read of exploitation and injustice, of courtship and marriage, and of the sociability of the wine-merchant's shop and the boardinghouse. Traugott's analytic introduction discusses the many shifts in French society during the nineteenth century. Used in combination with other sources, these autobiographies illuminate the relationship between changes in working conditions and in the forms of political participation and protest occurring as the century came to a close.

Author : Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400886260
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affluence and the French Worker in the Fourth Republic written by Richard F. Hamilton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic concern of the author is to find the reason for the persistent leftist character of French working-class politics in a period of rapid industrialization and improving living standards. Reanalyzing material from surveys made by two French organizations, he finds that increased affluence is correlated with changes in social structure that increase radicalism. As rural and small-town workers come into big cities and large plants, they are influenced by political activists who provide them with a Communist frame of reference for interpreting the meaning of new affluence. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Mark Traugott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091290X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Worker written by Mark Traugott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly 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, seamstress. Their stories of daily activities, work life, and popular politics are filled with lively, often poignant moments. We learn of dismal, unsanitary housing; of disease; workplace accidents; and terrible hardship, especially for the children of the poor. We read of exploitation and injustice, of courtship and marriage, and of the sociability of the wine-merchant's shop and the boardinghouse. Traugott's analytic introduction discusses the many shifts in French society during the nineteenth century. Used in combination with other sources, these autobiographies illuminate the relationship between changes in working conditions and in the forms of political participation and protest occurring as the century came to a close.

Author : William H. Sewell, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521299510
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work and Revolution in France written by William H. Sewell, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-10-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gary S. Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Workers in Industrial France written by Gary S. Cross and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the historical origins of a migrant worker working class in France - discusses immigration trends (1880-1939), occupational structure, geographic distribution, labour shortages in the 1920s, migration policy objectives, impact of capitalist industrialization, obstacles to social integration and social mobility, conflicting interests between the ruling class, employers and indigenous workers, etc.; argues that immigration enabled industrial enterprises to expand rapidly with adequate labour supply at low wages. Bibliography.

Author : Mark Kesselman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429833628
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Workers' Movement written by Mark Kesselman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984. This volume brings together many of the foremost French and North American specialists on the French working class movement. Although they differ substantially in their theoretical and ideological orientation, they share a left perspective. Their original essays provide a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the history of the movement, focusing on the constraints and opportunities created by the economic crisis of the 1970s and the political change ushered in by the Socialist Party’s victory in 1981.

Author : Michael P. Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521193761
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Artisan to Worker written by Michael P. Fitzsimmons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the debate over the potential reestablishment of guilds that occurred inside and outside the French government from 1776 to 1821.

Author : Elie Poulard
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268100802
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A French Slave in Nazi Germany written by Elie Poulard and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Required Work Service Law, or Service du Travail Obligatoire, was passed in 1943 by the Vichy government of France under German occupation. Passage of the law confirmed the French government’s willing collaboration in providing the Nazi regime with French manpower to replace German workers sent to fight in the war. The result was the deportation of 600,000 young Frenchmen to Germany, where they worked under the harshest conditions. Elie Poulard was one of the Frenchmen forced into labor by the Vichy government. Translated by his brother Jean V. Poulard, Elie’s memoir vividly captures the lives of a largely unrecognized group of people who suffered under the Nazis. He describes in great detail his ordeal at different work sites in the Ruhr region, the horrors that he witnessed, and the few Germans who were good to him. Through this account of one eyewitness on the ground, we gain a vivid picture of Allied bombing in the western part of Germany and its contribution to the gradual collapse and capitulation of Germany at the end of the war. Throughout his ordeal, Elie's Catholic faith, good humor, and perseverance sustained him. Little has been published in French or English about the use of foreign workers by the Nazi regime and their fate. The Poulards’ book makes an important contribution to the historiography of World War II, with its firsthand account of what foreign workers endured when they were sent to Nazi Germany. The memoir concludes with an explanation of the ongoing controversy in France over the opposition to the title Déporté du Travail, which those who experienced this forced deportation, like Elie, gave themselves after the war.

Author : Duncan Gallie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521257640
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Inequality and Class Radicalism in France and Britain written by Duncan Gallie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1983, examines in depth the nature and sources of class radicalism in France and Britain and takes issue with some of the major theories of class consciousness and class action. Drawing on data both from detailed case studies and from wider national surveys, it shows that the conflict of class interests within capitalist societies can lead to sharply diverging attitudes to class inequality. It argues that the explanation of such differences cannot be found in some 'general' law of the evolution of social conflict in capitalist society. It must be sought in the profound institutional differences that exist between the two societies. In particular the study argues for a reassessment of the importance of the experience of war and of the way in which the business and political elite handled the social crises generated by war, in accounting for the long-term structural divergence of capitalist societies.

Author : Oren Cass
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641770155
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Once and Future Worker written by Oren Cass and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Cass’s] core principle—a culture of respect for work of all kinds—can help close the gap dividing the two Americas....” – William A. Galston, The Brookings Institution The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation. Reliance on welfare programs has surged. Life expectancy is falling as substance abuse and obesity rates climb. These woes are not the inevitable result of irresistible global and technological forces. They are the direct consequence of a decades-long economic consensus that prioritized increasing consumption—regardless of the costs to American workers, their families, and their communities. Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency focused attention on the depth of the nation’s challenges, yet while everyone agrees something must change, the Left’s insistence on still more government spending and the Right’s faith in still more economic growth are recipes for repeating the mistakes of the past. In this groundbreaking re-evaluation of American society, economics, and public policy, Oren Cass challenges our basic assumptions about what prosperity means and where it comes from to reveal how we lost our way. The good news is that we can still turn things around—if the nation’s proverbial elites are willing to put the American worker’s interests first. Which is more important, pristine air quality, or well-paying jobs that support families? Unfettered access to the cheapest labor in the world, or renewed investment in the employment of Americans? Smoothing the path through college for the best students, or ensuring that every student acquires the skills to succeed in the modern economy? Cutting taxes, expanding the safety net, or adding money to low-wage paychecks? The renewal of work in America demands new answers to these questions. If we reinforce their vital role, workers supporting strong families and communities can provide the foundation for a thriving, self-sufficient society that offers opportunity to all.