Michael Hanagan

The Politics of Gender and the Making of the Welfare State, 1900–1940: A Comparative Perspective

Mary Lynn Stewart, Women, Work & the French State: Labour Protection and Social Patriarchy: 1879–1919 . Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. ix + 277 pp.

Ruling families and dominant classes in modern European history

A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840–1940. By Gary Cross (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1989. x plus 330 pp.

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The Historical Meanings of Work. Edited by Joyce Patrick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. v, 320.

44.50

Catharina Lis, Social Change and the Labouring Poor: Antwerp, 1770–1860 . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. xiii + 237 pp.

Histoire des Français XIXe–XXe siècles. Edited by Yves Lequin (Paris: Armand Colin, 1984. 3 vol., 1733 pp.)

Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (London: Methuen, 1984. xii + 283 pp.