Working-Class Formation: Ninteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States

Media type: E-Book

Title: Working-Class Formation : Ninteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Working-Class Formation: Constructing Cases and Comparisons
Part One. France
2. Artisans, Factory Workers, and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1789-1848
3. On the Formation of the French Working Class
4. The Distinctiveness of Working-Class Cultures in France, 1848-1900
Part Two. The United States
5. Becoming American: The Working Classes in the United States before the Civil War
6. Trade Unions and Political Machines: The Organization and Disorganization of the American Working Class in the Late Nineteenth Century
Part Three. Germany
7. Problems of Working-Class Formation in Germany: The Early Years, 1800-1875
8. Economic Crisis, State Policy, and Working-Class Formation in Germany, 1870-1900
Conclusion
9. How Many Exceptionalisms?
List of Contributors
Index

Contributor: Bridges, Amy [Contributor]; Cottereau, Alain [Contributor]; Katznelson, Ira [Contributor]; Katznelson, Ira [Editor]; Kocka, Jurgen [Contributor]; Nolan, Mary [Contributor]; Perrot, Michelle [Contributor]; Sewell, William H. [Contributor]; Shefter, Martin [Contributor]; Zolberg, Aristide R. [Contributor]; Zolberg, Aristide R. [Editor]

Published: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (482 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780691228228

ISBN: 9780691228228

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Keywords: Working class France History 19th century ; Working class Germany History 19th century ; Working class United States History 19th century ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory ; Activism ; Agriculture ; Anti-Socialist Laws ; Apprenticeship ; Aristocracy ; Artisan ; Bourgeoisie ; Capitalism ; Class conflict ; Class consciousness ; Collective action ; Collective bargaining ; Decentralization ; Division of labour ; Domestic worker ; E. P. Thompson ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Eight-hour day ; Emigration ; [...]

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Footnote: In English

Description: Applying an original theoretical framework, an international group of historians and social scientists here explores how class, rather than other social bonds, became central to the ideologies, dispositions, and actions of working people, and how this process was translated into diverse institutional legacies and political outcomes. Focusing principally on France. Germany, and the United States, the contributors examine the historically contingent connections between class, as objectively structured and experienced, and collective perceptions and responses as they develop in work, community, and politics. Following Ira Katznelson's introduction of the analytical concepts, William H. Sewell, Jr., Michelle Perrot, and Alain Cottereau discuss France; Amy Bridges and Martin Shefter, the United States; and Jargen Kocka and Mary Nolan, Germany. The conclusion by Aristide R. Zolberg comments on working-class formation up to World War I, including developments in Great Britain, and challenges conventional wisdom about class and politics in the industrializing West

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