An age to work : working-class childhood in Third Republic Paris /
Miranda Sachs.
- 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Oxford scholarship online .
- Oxford scholarship online. .
Also issued in print: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'An Age to Work' reveals how the French welfare state produced class and gender-based hierarchies within childhood. It weaves together the histories of child labor and juvenile delinquency to trace how the state used age-based regulations to ensure the productivity of working-class youths.