Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France Social Policy and the Working-Class Family, 1825-1848
- List Price: $39.50
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1988
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"Katherine Lynch's study of the French state's response to a crisis of working-class families illustrates a new sophistication in our understanding of the complex origins of social policy. She looks at middle-class reformers' formulation of social policy affecting illegitimacy, child abandonment, and child labor and examines the implementation of these policies in three major factory towns--Lille, Mulhouse, and Rouen--in the quarter century before the revolution of 1848. . . . This is a most valuable book that seeks to understand both the politics of reform and the ways in which reformist policies change in the process of implementation. It presents a sophisticated exploration of important issues."-- Journal of Economic History
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