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William Hamilton Sewell, « La confraternité des prolétaires : conscience de classe sous la monarchie de Juillet », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1981.282774
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The Confraternité des prolétaires : Class consciousness under July Monarchy Before the Revolution of 1830, the discourse and practice of French workers was derived essentially from the pre-industrial corporate tradition. But when workers were thrown into the political arena by the July Revolution, they had to formulate their demands within the political vocabulary of the new regime -a revived version of the liberal discourse of 1789. This required them to reconcile the revolution's individualistic language with the collectivist corporate traditions of the artisan trades. They solved this problem by elaborating a new idiom of "association", which not only enabled them to reformulate their longstanding demands for corporate regulation of their trades, but transcended narrow corporate loyalties and provided the conceptual foundations of class-conscious outlook. Working-class solidarity when it first appeared in France, was transformation and enlargement of the corporate solidarity of the artisan trades.