Michael Hanagan. Nascent Proletarians.

Contents

Preface

1 – Class Formation and Workers’ Families in the Region of Saint-Etienne, France

2 – Capital Concentration and Industrial Employment in the Stéphanois: 1780-1880

3 – The Formation of a Permanent Proletariat: 1840-1880

4 – Patterns of Life-Cycle Employment in Industry: Miners and Metalworkers

5 – The Working-Class Family Economy in the Industrial City

6 – Proletarians and Protest in the Stéphanois: the Origins of the Modern Labor Movement

Conclusion

Appendix. The Manuscript Census Sample: Measurement Problems

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