Reviews
"...Thought provoking, moving, and vitally important...a rchly evocativebook, a major contribution to the economic, social, and political history ofnineteenth-century France."--Journal of Social History, "Johnson is particularly vivid in describing the human costs when government and industry decided to tame the working class. He has done an extensive, thorough search of archival material, and is well versed in the secondary material."--Choice "The product of wide-ranging archival research and subperbly written, Johnson's is a brilliant book that deserves to become a classic account of the lives of workers caught up in the process of deindustrialization."--Labor History "...Thought provoking, moving, and vitally important...a rchly evocative book, a major contribution to the economic, social, and political history of nineteenth-century France."--Journal of Social History "[His] thesis is supported by twenty years of solid research. He writes with the conviction of a scholar and a committed social historian, which is refreshing in these grey revisionist days."--ITimes Literary Supplement "...An exhaustive regional study."--International Labor and Working-class History, "Johnson is particularly vivid in describing the human costs when government and industry decided to tame the working class. He has done an extensive, thorough search of archival material, and is well versed in the secondary material."--CHOICE "The product of wide-ranging archival research and subperbly written, Johnson's is a brilliant book that deserves to become a classic account of the lives of workers caught up in the process of deindustrialization."--Labor History "Thought provoking, moving, and vitally important...a rchly evocative book, a major contribution to the economic, social, and political history of nineteenth-century France."--Journal of Social History "[His] thesis is supported by twenty years of solid research. He writes with the conviction of a scholar and a committed social historian, which is refreshing in these grey revisionist days."--Times Literary Supplement "An exhaustive regional study."--International Labor and Working-class History "Touches of autobiography, the fulid writing style, and the consistently argued political line give the book a rare quality and it would be equally suitable as holiday or library reading."--Economic History Review "The narrative is executed with the vigor and flourish of literary and stylistic genius. It is robust, impassioned, concrete, and sometimes evocatively metaphorical. Humor and even some good-natured sniping pepper the text."--American Historical Review, "[His] thesis is supported by twenty years of solid research. He writes with the conviction of a scholar and a committed social historian, which is refreshing in these grey revisionist days."--ITimes Literary Supplement, "The product of wide-ranging archival research and subperbly written, Johnson's is a brilliant book that deserves to become a classic account of the lives of workers caught up in the process of deindustrialization."--Labor History, "Johnson is particularly vivid in describing the human costs when government and industry decided to tame the working class. He has done an extensive, thorough search of archival material, and is well versed in the secondary material."-- Choice "The product of wide-ranging archival research and subperbly written, Johnson's is a brilliant book that deserves to become a classic account of the lives of workers caught up in the process of deindustrialization."-- Labor History "...Thought provoking, moving, and vitally important...a rchly evocative book, a major contribution to the economic, social, and political history of nineteenth-century France."-- Journal of Social History "[His] thesis is supported by twenty years of solid research. He writes with the conviction of a scholar and a committed social historian, which is refreshing in these grey revisionist days."--ITimes Literary Supplement "...An exhaustive regional study."-- International Labor and Working-class History, "[His] thesis is supported by twenty years of solid research. He writeswith the conviction of a scholar and a committed social historian, which isrefreshing in these grey revisionist days."--ITimes Literary Supplement, "...Touches of autobiography, the fulid writing style, and the consistently argued political line give the book a rare quality and it would be equally suitable as holiday or library reading."--Economic History Review, "...Thought provoking, moving, and vitally important...a rchly evocative book, a major contribution to the economic, social, and political history of nineteenth-century France."--Journal of Social History, "The narrative is executed with the vigor and flourish of literary andstylistic genius. It is robust, impassioned, concrete, and sometimesevocatively metaphorical. Humor and even some good-natured sniping peppar thetext."--American Historical Review, "The product of wide-ranging archival research and subperbly written,Johnson's is a brilliant book that deserves to become a classic account of thelives of workers caught up in the process of deindustrialization."--ILaborHistory, "The narrative is executed with the vigor and flourish of literary and stylistic genius. It is robust, impassioned, concrete, and sometimes evocatively metaphorical. Humor and even some good-natured sniping pepper the text."--American Historical Review, "Johnson is particularly vivid in describing the human costs whengovernment and industry decided to tame the working class. He has done anextensive, thorough search of archival material, and is well versed in thesecondary material."--Choice, "Johnson is particularly vivid in describing the human costs when government and industry decided to tame the working class. He has done an extensive, thorough search of archival material, and is well versed in the secondary material."--Choice, "...Touches of autobiography, the fulid writing style, and theconsistently argued political line give the book a rare quality and it would beequally suitable as holiday or library reading."--Economic History Review, "Johnson is particularly vivid in describing the human costs when government and industry decided to tame the working class. He has done an extensive, thorough search of archival material, and is well versed in the secondary material."--CHOICE"The product of wide-ranging archival research and subperbly written, Johnson's is a brilliant book that deserves to become a classic account of the lives of workers caught up in the process of deindustrialization."--Labor History"Thought provoking, moving, and vitally important...a rchly evocative book, a major contribution to the economic, social, and political history of nineteenth-century France."--Journal of Social History"[His] thesis is supported by twenty years of solid research. He writes with the conviction of a scholar and a committed social historian, which is refreshing in these grey revisionist days."--Times Literary Supplement"An exhaustive regional study."--International Labor and Working-class History"Touches of autobiography, the fulid writing style, and the consistently argued political line give the book a rare quality and it would be equally suitable as holiday or library reading."--Economic History Review"The narrative is executed with the vigor and flourish of literary and stylistic genius. It is robust, impassioned, concrete, and sometimes evocatively metaphorical. Humor and even some good-natured sniping pepper the text."--American Historical Review
