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From manual workers to wage laborers : transformation of the social question / Robert Castel ; translated and edited by Richard Boyd.
Lippincott Library HD4901 .C34713 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castel, Robert.
- Standardized Title:
- Métamorphoses de la question sociale. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Working poor.
- Working class.
- Working poor--History.
- Working class--History.
- History.
- Poor.
- Poverty--Psychological aspects.
- Poverty.
- Public welfare--Europe--History.
- Public welfare.
- Social classes--Europe--History.
- Social classes.
- Social control.
- Europe.
- Social control--Europe--History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 468 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2003]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Contents:
- Part 1 From Tutelage to Contract
- 1. Protections of Proximity 9
- Primary Sociability 10
- The Evangelical Myth 18
- My Neighbor is a Fellow-Kinsman 24
- A Schematic for the Provision of Assistance 32
- 2. Embeddedness in Society 47
- 1349 48
- The Deconversion of Feudal Society 54
- The Useless of the World 63
- Vagabonds and Proletarians 70
- Repression, Dissuasion, Prevention 74
- 3. The Indignity of Wage Labor 87
- The Corporatist Idiom 89
- The Signature of the Craft 95
- Regulated Labor, Compulsory Labor 104
- The Lost of the Earth 114
- The Model of the Corvee 121
- 4. Liberal Modernity 139
- Mass Vulnerability 140
- Freedom of Labor 149
- "An Inviolable and Sacred Debt" 159
- The Dissociation of Law 167
- Utopian Capitalism 174
- Part 2 From Contract to Status
- 5. Politics Without a State 195
- The Miserable 196
- A Return to Tutelage 206
- Patronage and Patrons 217
- A Negative Utopia 228
- 6. Social Property 247
- A New Hand 248
- The Question of Obligation 260
- Property or Work 270
- The Propriety of Transfers 280
- 7. Wage-Earning Society 303
- The New Salarial Relationship 305
- The Working Condition 316
- Destitution 325
- The Wage-Earning Condition 335
- The Growth-State 343
- 8. The New Social Question 367
- A Change of Direction 369
- The Supernumeraries 379
- "Economic Insertion," or the Myth of Sisyphus 394
- The Crisis of the Future 408
- Conclusion: Negative Individualism 445.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765801493
- OCLC:
- 51722790
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