The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City by Joan Wallach Scott

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

Harvard Studies in Urban History

Joan Wallach Scott

256 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction business history sociology
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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 lifestyl...

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