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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Outros Autores: Traugott, Mark
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
francês
Publicado em: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1993.
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501238
Descrição
Resumo: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.
Descrição do item:Translated from the French.
Descrição Física:1 online resource (xi, 382 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780520912908
052091290X
0585082405
9780585082400
0520079310
0520079329
9780520079328