The Glassworkers of Carmaux - French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City

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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Wallace Scott, Joan Wallach Scott, Scott Joan Wallach
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1980
• EAN: 9780674354418
• ISBN: 978-0-674-35441-8
• Weight: 308 g
• Series: Harvard Studies in Urban Histo; Harvard Studies in Urban Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social and cultural history, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life