The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City
by Joan Wallach Scott
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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.Tags
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Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Her books include Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996), The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011), and Sex and Secularism (2017).
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- The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City
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- 1974
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- Carmaux, Occitanie, France
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