| Working-Class Formation: Ninteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States Contributor(s): Katznelson, Ira (Editor), Zolberg, Aristide R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0691102074 ISBN-13: 9780691102078 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $70.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1986 Annotation: This book is about different kinds of reaction to proletarianization in nineteenth-century France, Germany, and the United States. It seeks to explain variations in the formation of working classes in these countries at the moment when class emerged as a way of organizing, thinking about, and acting on society; and it asks how initial patterns of sentiment, behavior, and organization shaped class relations later in the century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Minority Studies - Business & Economics | Labor |
| Dewey: 305.562 |
| LCCN: 86009494 |
| Physical Information: 1.14" H x 6.11" W x 9.16" (1.51 lbs) 482 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |