Working People of Paris, 1871-1914 Contributor(s): Berlanstein, Lenard R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1421430371 ISBN-13: 9781421430379 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $44.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - History | Europe - France - History | United States - General |
Dewey: 305.562 |
Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political |
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6" W x 9" (0.97 lbs) 296 pages |
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Publisher Description: In The Working People of Paris, 1871-1914, Lenard Berlanstein examines how technological advances, expanding industrialization, bureaucratization, and urban growth affected the lives of the working poor and near poor of one of the world's most influential cities during an era of intense social and cultural change. Berlanstein departs from other historians of the working classes in treating, in a parallel manner, not only craftsmen and factory laborers but also service workers and lower-level white-collar employees. Avoiding the fallacy of letting the city limits set the boundaries of an urban study, he deals also with the industrial suburbs, with their considerable concentration of workers, to examine the transformation of the work, leisure, and consumer experiences of the people who did not own property and who lived from one payday to the next during the Second Industrial Revolution. |