This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France Appearing for the first time inEnglish, these stories vividly convey the ambitions, hardships, and reversals of ordinary people ознюб struggling to gain a measure of respectability The workers' livelihoods are diverse: chair-maker, embroiderer, joiner, mason, silk weaver, machinist, seamstress Their stories of daily activities, work life, and popular politics are filled with lively, often poignant moments We learn of dismal, unsanitary housing; of disease; workplace accidents; and terrible hardship, especially for the children of the poor We read of exploitation and injustice, of courtship and marriage, and of the sociability of the wine-merchant's shop and the boardinghouse Traugott's analytic introduction discusses the many shifts in French society during the nineteenth century Used in combination with other sources, these autobiographies illuminate the relationship between changes in working conditions and in the forms of political participation and protest occurring as the century came to a close.  Издание 1981ISBN 0520079329.