Working-Class Formation: Ninteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States - Softcover

"This is by far the best collection of essays published on the subject of class formation. It is interdisciplinary social science history at its finest."--Ronald Aminzade, University of Minnesota "This book will take its place among the very finest resources on nineteenth-century working-class history."--Sean Wilentz, Princeton University

This book is about different kinds of reaction to proletarianization in nineteenth-century France, Germany, and the United States. It seeks to explain variations in the formation of working classes in these countries at the moment when class emerged as a way of organizing, thinking about, and acting on society; and it asks how initial patterns of sentiment, behavior, and organization shaped class relations later in the century.