Working-Class Formation : : Ninteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States / / ed. by Aristide R. Zolberg, Ira Katznelson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bridges, Amy,; Cottereau, Alain,; Katznelson, Ira,; Kocka, Jurgen,; Nolan, Mary,; Perrot, Michelle,; Sewell, William H.,; Shefter, Martin,; Zolberg, Aristide R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Katznelson, Ira,; Zolberg, Aristide R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (482 p.)

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 institutiona...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Working-Class Formation: Constructing Cases and Comparisons
• Part One. France
• 2. Artisans, Factory Workers, and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1789-1848
• 3. On the Formation of the French Working Class
• 4. The Distinctiveness of Working-Class Cultures in France, 1848-1900
• Part Two. The United States
• 5. Becoming American: The Working Classes in the United States before the Civil War
• 6. Trade Unions and Political Machines: The Organization and Disorganization of the American Working Class in the Late Nineteenth Century
• Part Three. Germany
• 7. Problems of Working-Class Formation in Germany: The Early Years, 1800-1875
• 8. Economic Crisis, State Policy, and Working-Class Formation in Germany, 1870-1900
• Conclusion
• 9. How Many Exceptionalisms?
• List of Contributors
• Index