Glassworkers of Carmaux French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City

This study analyzes in close detail the experiences of glassworkers as mechanization transformed their trade from a highly skilled art to a semiskilled occupation. Ms. Scott argues that changes in the organization of work altered the life style and political outlook of glassworkers. These changes also created a new identity for them as residents of Carmaux, a city in the Department of the tarn in southwestern France. Once an isolated group of itinerant workers within the city, glassworkers became active trade unionists and militant socialists in the 1890s.Scott, Joan W. is the author of 'Glassworkers of Carmaux French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City', published 1980 under ISBN 9780674354418 and ISBN 0674354419.