Miranda Sachs (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of History

An Age to Work

Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris

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Produktbeschreibung

An Age to Work reveals how the French welfare state produced class and gender-based hierarchies within childhood. It weaves together the histories of child labor and juvenile delinquency to trace how the state used age-based regulations to ensure the productivity of working-class youths.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780197638453
• ISBN-10: 0197638457
• Artikelnr.: 67980409

Autorenporträt

Miranda Sachs is a historian of modern Europe with a particular emphasis on French history and the history of childhood. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Child Labor Legislation and the Regulation of Age
* Chapter 2: "An Apprenticeship for Life": Training the Republican
Worker
* Chapter 3: Creating the Juvenile Delinquent
* Chapter 4: "An Insurmountable Distaste for Work": Juvenile
Delinquents in the Archives
* Chapter 5: Blurred Spaces: Working-Class Girlhood
* Chapter 6: "The Collaboration of the Crowd": Age and Identity in
Working-Class Neighborhoods
* Chapter 7: Interwar Reform
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index