Helen Harden Chenut, “The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France”. Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press | english | ISBN: 0271029927 | edition: 2006 | PDF | 448 Pages | 23 Mb The years of the Third Republic (1870-1940) in France were ones of intense social and economic transformation as workers struggled to defend their rights in the face of growing industrial capitalism. In The Fabric of Gender, Helen Chenut paints a vivid picture of working life during these years by following four generations of laboring women and men in one community, the textile town of Troyes in the Champagne region.
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