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Working with Language: The Linguistic Turn in French Labor History. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Lenard R. Berlanstein
Lenard R. Berlanstein
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The University of Virginia
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 1991 , pp. 426 - 440
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1991

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References

1 Scott, Joan Wallach, The Glassworkers of Carmaux. French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974),Google Scholar chs. 2, 4.

2 Ibid., chs. 4, 5.

3 Languages of Class: Studies In English Working Class History, 1832–1982 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).Google Scholar

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5 The work has recently been translated as The Nights of Labor. The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France, Drury, John, trans. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press,1989).Google Scholar The new version begins with an excellent introduction by Donald Reid.

6 Especially subject to Ranciere's critique is Bernard Moss, The Origins of the French Labor Movement, 1830–1914. The Socialism of Skilled Workers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).Google Scholar

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8 The most thorough study of the creation of proletarian families is Michael Hanagan, Nascent Proletarians. Class Formation in Post-Revolutionary France (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989).Google Scholar

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