The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City / Edition 1

by Joan Wallach Scott

Overview

This award-winning study analyzes in close detail the experiences of glassworkers as mechanization transformed their trade from a highly skilled art to a semiskilled occupation. Arguing that changes in the organization of work altered the lifestyle and political outlook of the glassworker, Joan Scott uses local archival materials and demographic records to reconstruct the experience of ordinary workingmen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674354418
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	10/15/1980
Series:	Harvard Studies in Urban History
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Joan Wallach Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams and the Joan Kelly prizes of the American Historical Association.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Carmaux, 1850-1890

2. The Craft of the Glassworker

3. Glassworkers and Miners: A Contrast

4. Mechanization

5. Socialism

6. The Strike of 1895

7. New Glassworkers and Old, 1896-1914

Epilogue: Three Portraits

Appendix

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Editorial Reviews

This book is superb social history, one of the most important recent studies of French industrialization.

Social History - John Merriman

A model for urban history studies. Utilizing the current techniques of quantitative measurements but without sacrificing any of the time-tested tools of the profession, [Scott] has traced the impact of industrialization and the development of class-consciousness among the French artisan glassworkers in the late 19th century… An absorbing story.

History - Frank Fox

An enlightening addition to the growing American contribution to the history of France's turbulent Third Republic.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History - David H. Pinkney

An important book, well written and thoroughly researched. Its rather narrow focus belies its conceptual breadth and the impact of this kind of historical research on our understanding of the laboring population's experience of industrialization.

Journal of Social History - Theresa M. McBride

This book is superb social history, one of the most important recent studies of French industrialization.
— John Merriman

Social History

An enlightening addition to the growing American contribution to the history of France's turbulent Third Republic.
— David H. Pinkney

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

An important book, well written and thoroughly researched. Its rather narrow focus belies its conceptual breadth and the impact of this kind of historical research on our understanding of the laboring population's experience of industrialization.
— Theresa M. McBride

Journal of Social History

A model for urban history studies. Utilizing the current techniques of quantitative measurements but without sacrificing any of the time-tested tools of the profession, [Scott] has traced the impact of industrialization and the development of class-consciousness among the French artisan glassworkers in the late 19th century...An absorbing story.
— Frank Fox

History