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An age to work : working-class childhood in Third Republic Paris /

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"In 1870, at the start of the French Third Republic, the average working-class child entered the workforce after completing primary school, and sometimes before. Boys toiled in print shops and girls spent their days sewing. In its first decades, the Republic prioritized protecting these youngst...

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Main Author: Sachs, Miranda (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Child labor > France > Paris > History > 19th century.
Child labor > France > Paris > History > 20th century.
Child labor > Law and legislation > France > Paris > History > 19th century.
Child labor > Law and legislation > France > Paris > History > 20th century.
Children > France > Paris > Social conditions > 19th century.
Children > France > Paris > Social conditions > 20th century.
Paris (France) > History > 1870-1940.
Enfants > Travail > France > Paris > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Enfants > Travail > France > Paris > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Enfants > France > Paris > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Enfants > France > Paris > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Paris (France) > Histoire > 1870-1940.
Europe.
HISTORY.
Modern.
Child labor
Child labor > Law and legislation
Children > Social conditions
France > Paris
Children.
Family members.
Economics.
Industry.
1800-1999
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Defining childhood in Third Republic Paris
  • Child labor legislation and the regulation of age
  • "An apprenticeship for life" : Training the republican worker
  • Creating the juvenile delinquent
  • "An insurmountable distaste for work" : juvenile delinquents in the archives
  • Blurred spaces : working-class girlhood
  • "The collaboration of the crowd" : Age and identity in working-class neighborhoods
  • Interwar reform
  • Conclusion.