The coachmen of nineteenth-century Paris: service workers and class consciousness

Historical writings and art and literature of the period depict the coachmen of nineteenth-century Paris in a variety of ways - from unflinchingly honest to unspeakably rude to utterly criminal. In this captivating book, Nicholas Papayanis sets about to penetrate the popular image of the coachman an...

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1. Verfasser: Papayanis, Nicholas (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge u.a. Louisiana State Univ. Press 1993
Ausgabe:1. print.
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Zusammenfassung:Historical writings and art and literature of the period depict the coachmen of nineteenth-century Paris in a variety of ways - from unflinchingly honest to unspeakably rude to utterly criminal. In this captivating book, Nicholas Papayanis sets about to penetrate the popular image of the coachman and present a realistic picture of this frequently maligned segment of the Paris population
On one level, The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris offers a definitive history of Paris cabbies, providing a sociological portrait of these workers, their backgrounds, marriage patterns, social networks, neighborhood choices, work experience, organizations, strikes, patterns of social mobility, response to technological change particularly the advent of the automobile and development of political and class consciousness
Most coachmen had migrated to Paris from outlying regions of France, a fact that Papayanis uses to illuminate the broader theme of the social integration of rural inhabitants into urban life. On another level, the book deals with the economic and structural history of the Paris cab trade, describing its organization and regulation, the impact it felt from major events like the Paris Expositions of 1879 and 1889, and the effect of government efforts to unify the cab trade under a municipal monopoly
Beschreibung:XVI, 247 S.
ISBN:0807118141

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