the language of labor from the Old Regime to 1848 /
William H. Sewell, Jr.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1980.
x, 340 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-328) and index.
Introduction : social history and the language of labor -- Mechanical arts and the corporate idiom -- Journeymen's brotherhoods -- The abolition of privilege -- From gens de métier to sans-culottes -- Revolution in property -- Industrial society -- Workers' corporations -- The July Revolution and the emergence of class consciousness -- The paradoxes of labor -- The Revolution of 1848 -- Conclusion : the dialectic of revolution.