From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers: Transformation of the Social Question

Wage labor was long considered a degrading condition that people entered when they had failed at their real work, and has often been condemned as a remnant of slavery to be eradicated. Castel (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) investigates how it has overcome these handicaps to become the model by which most people relate to the economic world. Boyd (political science, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) translates MÉtamorphoses de la question sociale, for which for no original publication data is provided.