1st Edition
The Making of the Citizen-Worker Labour and the Borders of Politics in Post-revolutionary France
By Federico Tomasello
Copyright 2024
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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Over the course of the 19th century, European societies started thinking of themselves as “civilisations of work.” In the wake of the political and industrial revolutions, labour as a human activity and condition gradually came to embody a general principle of order, progress, and governance. How did work become so central to our systems of citizenship and social recognition?
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Introduction. 1. The post-revolutionary context Part I: Objects: Work and the social sciences 2. Epidemics and subaltern classes 3. Liberalism and the science of society 4. Towards the “citizen-worker” Part II: Subjects: Work as politics 5. The rise of the working class 6. The political subjectivation of labour. Conclusion
Biography
Federico Tomasello is Assistant Professor at the University of Messina. His research path has developed at the intersection between social and political theory and intellectual history. His latest publications include From Industrial to Digital Citizenship: Rethinking Social Rights in Cyberspace (2022).
