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PublisherTemple University Press

ISBN-100877226253

ISBN-139780877226253

eBay Product ID (ePID)580769

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Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameNights of Labor : the Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France

Publication Year1989

SubjectEuropean / French, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science

AuthorJacques Ranciere

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight28 Oz

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN88-032629

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Jacques RanciÈre's stunning work, La nult des proletaires, has overturned some of our most cherished cliches about nineteenth-century working-class politics. He has traced artisan militants into their garrets and investigated their nightmares and secret longings. He has shown that their public pronouncements notwithstanding, they found nothing noble about the life of work, dreaded the return to the shop each morning, longed for bourgeois comfort and security. RanciÈre's powers of insight into personality and of literary evocation have torn asunder a whole accepted wisdom about how the industrial revolution disrupted a less alienating, artisanal way of life. Obviously such an attack has relevance for every country that experienced industrialization in the nineteenth century. And RanciÈre's vivid portrays should be attractive and compelling to students even if they are not fully conversant with details of French history." -William M Readdy, Professor of History, Duke University "Originally published in France in 1981, this work reexamines the largely forgotten writings of a small number of worker-poets and worker-intellectuals in the 1830s and 1840s [RanciÈre] finds the true essence of the modern proletariat in these precarious and precocious handworkers and in their ambiguous encounters with bourgeois utopian socialists.... With its innovative (or at least unusual) approach, RanciÈre's difficult and provocative interpretation is essential reading for specialists." -Choice

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal305.5/6

SynopsisIncorporates the post-structuralist insistence on the production of meaning as a dynamic, conflictual process. This book reveals contradictions engendered by the suppression of 'writing'. It chooses to deconstruct the proletariat by exposing its conflicts and strategies of containment.

LC Classification NumberHD8429.R3613 1989