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Title Work in France : representations, meaning, organization, and practice / edited by Steven Laurence Kaplan and Cynthia J. Koepp.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1986.

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Description 1 online resource (576 pages) : illustrations, map
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Note Selection of essays first presented at Cornell University on 28-30 April 1983 as part of a conference entitled Representations of Work in France.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Work, fellowship and some economic realities of eighteenth-century France / Daniel Roche -- Journeymen's migrations and workshop organization in eighteenth-century France / Michael Sonenscher -- Social and geographic mobility of the eighteenth-century guild artisan: an analysis of guild receptions in Dijon, 1700-1790 / Edward J. Shephard, Jr. -- Independent and insolent: journeymen and their "rites" on the old regime workplace / Cynthia M. Truant -- Social classification and representation in the corporate world of eighteenth-century France: Turgot's "Carnival" / Steven Laurence Kaplan -- Alphabetical order: work in Diderot's Encyclopédie / Cynthia J. Koepp -- Visions of labor: illustrations of the mechanical arts before, in, and after Diderot's Encyclopédie / William H. Sewell, Jr. -- Urban trades: social analysis and representation / Maurice Garden -- A nineteenth-century work experience as related in a worker's autobiography: Norbert Truquin / Michelle Perrot -- Myth of the artisan: critical reflections on a category of social history / Jacques Rancière -- Statistical representations of work: the politics of the Chamber of Commerce's Statisique de l'industrie à Paris, 1847-48 / Joan W. Scott -- Moral sense of farce: the patois literature of Lille factory laborers, 1848-70 / William M. Reddy -- Reinterpreting capitalist industrialization: a study of nineteenth-century France / Ronald Aminzade -- Proletarian families and social protest: production and reproduction as issues of social conflict in nineteenth-century France / Michael P. Hanagan -- Apprenticeship in nineteenth-century France: a continuing tradition of a break with the past? / Yves Lequin -- European science of work: the economy of the body at the end of the nineteenth-century / Anson Rabinbach -- Automobile workers in France and their work, 1914-83 / Patrick Fridenson.
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Subject Labor -- France -- History -- Congresses.
Labor.
France.
History.
Work -- History -- Congresses.
Work.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Kaplan, Steven L.
Koepp, Cynthia J.
Other Form: Print version: Work in France. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1986 0801416973 (DLC) 85022352 (OCoLC)12549249
ISBN 9781501711237 (electronic book)
1501711237 (electronic book)
0801416973
9780801416972