women, work, and the French revolution
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- DiCaprio, Lisa
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- FR 1C 2007
- Thesaurus
- betaalde arbeid, verzorgingsstaat, revoluties, Franse Revolutie, Frankrijk, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw
- Description
- In May 1790, the French National Assembly created spinning workshops (ateliers de filature) for thousands of unemployed women in Paris. These ateliers disclose new aspects of the process which transformed Old Regime charity into revolutionary welfare initiatives characterized by secularization, centralization, and entitlements based on citizenship. This study examines women and the welfare state in its formative period at a time when modern concepts of human rights were elaborated. In this book DiCaprio reveals how the women working in the ateliers, municipal welfare officials, and the national government defined the meaning of revolutionary welfare throughout the Revolution. Presenting demands for improved wages and working conditions to a wide array of revolutionary officials, the women workers exercised their rights as “passive citizens” capaciously and shaped the meanings of work, welfare, and citizenship.