Author: Stearns, Peter N.
Title: Paths to Authority: The Middle Class and the Industrial Labor Force in France, 1820-48
Description: Urbana, University of Illinois Press, (1978). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, (8), 222 pp.. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Framework for Class Consciousness: Typology; Labor Constraints in Industry; Labor Policies in Industry: Supply, Skill & Discipline: Considerations of Old Chestnuts & New; Paternalism; The Conventional Wisdom: Social Outlook & Impulses for Reform: The Common Assumptions; Toward Social Reform; Conclusion; Appendix: Trends in Material Conditions.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, France, Labor History, Industry, Social Classes, Middle Class, Industrial Labour, ,