The French worker : autobiographies from the early industrial era /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English French |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1993.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501238 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the French. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 382 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780520912908 052091290X 0585082405 9780585082400 0520079310 0520079329 9780520079328 |