A History Of The French Working Class

Author : Henry Steele
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484121460
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Working Classes in France written by Henry Steele and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Working Classes in France: A Social Study In this little book the author has done a useful work in the direction of this better understanding. Many English people visit France, and especially Paris; but very few among them know anything of the actual life of the real people and Paris is still, to the bulk of English men, the gay capital of a frivolous and fickle nation, where vice is arrayed' in its most attractive guise and the pursuit of pleasure is the only serious business. Even those whose experience teaches them better than' this have not thought it worth while to give the public the benefit of their experience. The plain and simple life of the working-class is so uninteresting compared with that of the brilliant adventurer or the successful courtesan that it has been scarcely considered worth describing and thanks are due to our author for having rendered this service. So far as Mr. Steele's general conclusions, based upon his intimate experience of the life of the French workmen, are concerned, I am pleased to find them correspond entirely with those I had myself formed froma much more cursory acquaintance. I have found, for instance, in all my dealings with continental workmen not only Frenchmen - that they were much more courteous, and even cordial, to the foreign workman coming among them than English workmen as a rule are. It has always appeared to me, too, and I have stated it frequently, that there is in public, in restaurants, in the street, &c., much less constraint and much more mutual respect among the different classes on the continent than here; while on the other hand the class feeling of the continental workman, his class-consciousness and hatred of the bourgeoisie, transcends anything to be found in this country, except among the capitalists towards the work man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.