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

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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.

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. Aristide R. Zolberg is Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of New School University in New York City and director of its International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship.

"This book will take its place among the very finest resources on nineteenth-century working-class history."-Sean Wilentz, Princeton University "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