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Click on any link below to learn more about the French worker of the 18th & 19th Centuries |
A class project by the students in History 541 (France, 1815 to the present), University of Kentucky, spring 2002, under the direction of Professor Jeremy D. Popkin What’s on this site As part of our class work, the students in History 541 have written articles describing the various aspects of working-class life in nineteenth-century France. For source material, we used the readings in Mark Traugott, ed., The French Worker (University of California Press, 1993), a collection of excerpts from the autobiographies of workers of the period, which we read and discussed in class. Each student was assigned an individual topic, such as working conditions, the role of family in workers’ lives, or relations between workers and the government. How we did it A few of the students in the class helped me edit the first drafts of the articles students wrote on their topics. We then returned the papers to students for further revision. I have gone over the revised versions of the papers to make sure the versions posted on this web site are factually accurate, but I have tried to leave the flavor of individual students’ writing and the original observations many of them made. Student editors were Adam Morrison and Paul Tillier. Why a web site? In most college classes, no one except the professor ever sees the written work that students do. This project is designed to let the students in History 541 share some of what they have done with others, and show that they can be teachers as well as learners. The material on this web site can be used as a resource in other history classes. Sara Hinds designed the web site. 
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All design copyright Sara Hinds 2002 All essays copyright students of History 541, University of Kentucky 2002 Comments? Comments on this site should be sent to Professor Jeremy D. Popkin, Department of History, University of Kentucky, email popkin@uky.edu. |