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In The Working People of Paris, 1871-1914, Lenard Berlanstein examines how technological advances, expanding industrialization, bureaucratization, and urban growth affected the lives of the working poor and near poor of one of the world's most influential cities during an era of intense social and cultural change. Berlanstein departs from other historians of the working classes in treating, in a parallel manner, not only craftsmen and factory laborers but also service workers and lower-level white-collar employees. Avoiding the fallacy of letting the city limits set the boundaries of an urban study, he deals also with the industrial suburbs, with their considerable concentration of workers, to examine the transformation of the work, leisure, and consumer experiences of the people who did not own property and who lived from one payday to the next during the Second Industrial Revolution. The Working People of Paris describes a cycle of adaptation and resistance to the forces of economic maturation. For several decades after 1871, Berlanstein argues, working people and employees preserved accommodations with management about reciprocal rights in the workplace. By the beginning of the twentieth century, however, these forms of adaptation had broken down under new economic pressures. The result was a crisis of discipline in the workplace, as wage earners and modest clerks began to challenge managerial authority. Berlanstein's study confronts the widely accepted view that, during this period, workers became better integrated into a society of improving standards of living and mass leisure. Instead, he documents uneven patterns of material progress and growing conflict over work roles among all sorts of laboring people.

Working class --- History --- Paris (France) --- Social conditions. --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Employment --- European history

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"S'il est un spectre qui hante l'Europe des XIXe et XXe siècles, c'est bien celui de la classe ouvrière. En témoignent les innombrables enquêtes qui lui sont consacrées : elles disent combien la "question sociale", telle qu'elle s'invente avec l'industrialisation, est d'abord une inquiétude sur la condition ouvrière et son évolution. Ces mondes ouvriers, si prompts aux soulèvements, constituent une énigme que de multiples enquêtes visent à résoudre, le plus souvent pour conjurer une menace. Ce livre propose un voyage étonnant à ses lecteurs en les conduisant, par les yeux des enquêteurs, dans les taudis de Manchester, les cités minières du Borinage ou les usines Mirafiori de Turin. Il éclaire d'un jour nouveau des figures illustres des sciences sociales : Frédéric Le Play, Max Weber ou Maurice Halbwachs ; mais il les fait aussi voisiner avec des artistes (Zola et les écrivains naturalistes, les cinéastes autour de Chris Marker) et avec des collectifs soudés par un engagement - féministes, jocistes ou révolutionnaires. En explorant ce qui mêla indissociablement pratiques scientifiques et passions politiques, l'ouvrage offre une contribution originale à une histoire transnationale de l'Europe contemporaine."--Page 4 of cover.

Enquêtes sociales --- Classe ouvrière --- Working class --- Social conditions --- Research --- History. --- Political activity --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- History --- Employment --- Enquête sociologique --- Histoire sociale --- XIXe-XXIe s. -- 1801-2100 --- Europe

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In Enduring Change, Ju Li explores the concrete labor and social history of one particular Third-Front industrial complex in China from the 1960s to the globalized present. By connecting the micro-historical-ethnographic research with larger structural dynamics, Li provides a vivid, in-depth, and multi-layered account of how the transformative history of the past half-century has manifested itself in this small industrial site and how several generations of workers there have lived through these turbulences.

Working class --- Social history --- Labor movement --- Labor --- History. --- China --- Social conditions. --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Work --- Social movements --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- History --- Sociology --- Commons (Social order) --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Employment --- E-books

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Si l'on sait que, de 1848 à 1851, la « journée insurrectionnelle » est autant valorisée que stigmatisée, les participants aux barricades parisiennes sont encore mal connus. L'approche socio-biographique éclaire ce que participer veut dire et représente aux yeux des protagonistes des journées révolutionnaires. La révolution de 1848 est un moment d'entrée en politique de milieux sociaux relégués jusque-là à la marge de l'espace public. La répression des journées de juin définit le processus inverse de leur sortie de la participation citoyenne. Aussi, cette étude souligne ce que fut l'apprentissage de l'illégitimité de la culture des armes du « citoyen-combattant ». Cette perte de légitimité, à l'origine de la condamnation de toute forme de lutte armée dans l'espace public républicain, s'inscrit dans un temps long du désarmement de la société civile en France. Elle en est une des étapes capitales Ce livre apporte une nouvelle compréhension des « milieux populaires » des années charnières du xixe siècle, à partir d'un vaste corpus de requêtes envoyées par la suite aux autorités. Il suggère une nouvelle voie pour l'étude des milieux sociaux peu habitués à écrire sur eux-mêmes.

History of France --- anno 1800-1899 --- Paris --- Working class --- Travailleurs --- Political activity --- History --- Activité politique --- Histoire --- Paris (France) --- France --- Activité politique --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Employment --- barricade --- combattant --- Empire --- milieu populaire --- insurrection --- citoyen --- révolte

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'We're Still Here' provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics. Drawing on years of fieldwork and over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Jennifer M. Silva tells a deep, multi-generational story of pain and politics that will endure long after Trump and the elections of 2016.

Working class --- Presidents --- Coal mines and mining --- Social conditions --- Attitudes. --- Political activity --- Election --- Social aspects --- United States --- Coal mining --- Collieries --- Energy industries --- Mines and mineral resources --- Presidency --- Heads of state --- Executive power --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Employment