The Rites of Labor
Subtitle: Brotherhoods of Compagnonnage in Old and New Regime France
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: January 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780801482403
Subjects: Association: clubs, societies; Cultural studies; Politics - Current Events; History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Europe - France; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; France; Compagnonnages; Working-men's clubs
First sentence: On 20 March 1848 some eight to ten thousand compagnons gathered at the place de la République for a historic reconciliation of the three major sects of compagnonnage.