Nascent Proletarians: Class Formation in Post-Revolutionary France

by Michael P. Hanagan

This book illustrates the vital link between family, and work conflict in the formation of modern European social class. In analysing the development of industrialized mid-Nineteenth century France, Hanagan demonstrates that the demographic processes such as migration and mortality, and fertility patterns, combined with family dynamics, are crucial in understanding the timing, extent, and substance of class in class conflict.`Nascent Proletarians' emphasizes that capital concentration and social impoverishment created a basic unity behind the processes of class and family formation among different groups and that this unity set the stage for the rise of the broad-based class system which characterizes much of modern Europe to this day.

220 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1989