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Writing modern selves: literacy and the French working class in the early nineteenth century.(SECTION II WORKING CLASS: ACTION AND EXPRESSION)

From: Journal of Social History  |  Date: 9/22/2006  |  Author: Rowe, Steven E.

In the closing pages of his memoirs which were written between 1821 and 1830, the carpenter Jacques Etienne Bede directly addressed those he expected would be the audience for his text--both master artisans and journeymen workers. Bede focused in particular on young journeymen "of future centuries" who were "strangers to our discord" and advised them to learn the lessons of his life and of his fellow carpenters who organized a mutual aid society for chair-turners in early ...

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