The French worker : autobiographies from the early industrial era /

This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions...

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Other Authors: Traugott, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • A worker in 1820 / Jacques Etienne Bédé
  • Recollections of a daughter of the people / Suzanne Voilquin
  • Memoirs of a compagnon / Agricol Perdiguier
  • Memoirs of Léonard : a former mason's assistant / Martin Nadaud
  • Memoirs and adventures of a proletarian in times of revolution / Norbert Truquin
  • Memoirs of a militant worker from Le Creusot / Jean-Baptiste Dumay
  • My memoirs / Jeanne Bouvier.