Women, work, and the French State : labour protection and social patriarchy, 1879-1919 / Mary Lynn Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Mary Lynn, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Law and legislation--France.

Women.

Labor laws and legislation--France--History.

Labor laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

ix, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Labour protection and social patriarchy, 1879-1919

Place of Publication:

Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stewart traces the implementation of these laws in factories with an examination of the work of the predominantly bourgeois inspectors and their relations with employers and workers. She shows how employers and workers alike at first evaded, then slowly adjusted to the restrictive legislation. By identifying the curious mixture of reformers involved - including union organizers and enlightened employers, socialists and Social Catholics - and investigating the motives behind their campaign for protective labour legislation in France, Stewart reveals that these laws were conceived as barriers to exclude women from male job monopolies.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables

Preface

Introduction

The Logic of the Dual Labour Market

Protecting the Family

Restricting Reform

Implementing Reform

The Economics of Compliance

Banning Women

Saving Women?

Protecting Infants ?

Conclusion

Key Articles of the Labour Laws of 1892 and 1900

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-272) and index.

ISBN:

9786612851384

9781282851382

1282851381

9780773562059

0773562052

Publisher Number:

2027/heb33478 hdl