Description
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1984. In The Working People of Paris, 18711914, 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. The Working People of Paris describes a cycle of adaptation and resist
Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures
Preface
Chapter 1. The Working Population
Chapter 2. Material Conditions
Chapter 3.The Work Experience
Chapter 4. Off-the-Job Life
Chapter 5. Politics and Protest
Chpater 6. Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
