Making of the Citizen-Worker - Labour and the Borders of Politics in Post-Revolutionary France

The book addresses how work became so central to our systems of citizenship and social recognition by considering the French context in the long transition between the 1789 and 1848 revolutions and focusing on a specific 'fragment' of history in the early 1830s marked by a pandemic crisis and the first consequences of industrialisation.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. The post-revolutionary context Part I: Objects: Work and the social sciences 2. Epidemics and subaltern classes 3. Liberalism and the science of society 4. Towards the "citizen-worker" Part II: Subjects: Work as politics 5. The rise of the working class 6. The political subjectivation of labour. Conclusion

About the author

Federico Tomasello is Assistant Professor at the University of Messina. His research path has developed at the intersection between social and political theory and intellectual history. His latest publications include From Industrial to Digital Citizenship: Rethinking Social Rights in Cyberspace (2022).

Product details

• Authors: Federico Tomasello, Federico (European University Institute Tomasello
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032301150
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230115-0
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of France
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, Economic history, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Social and cultural history