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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
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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.
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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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