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Gary Cross. A Quest for Time. The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840–1940. University of California Press, Berkeley [etc.] 1989. xi, 330 pp. $39.95.

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Gary Cross. A Quest for Time. The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840–1940. University of California Press, Berkeley [etc.] 1989. xi, 330 pp. $39.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2009

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Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1993

References

1. Cross, G., Immigrant Workers in Industrial France. The Making of a New Laboring Class (Philadelphia, 1983)Google Scholar; “Redefining Workers' Control: Rationalization, Labor Time, and Union Politics in France, 1900–1928”, in Cronin, J. E. and Sirianni, C. (eds.), Work, Community and Power. The Experience of Labor in Europe and America, 1900–1925 (Philadelphia, 1983), pp. 143172Google Scholar; “The Quest for Leisure: Reassessing the Eight-Hour Day in France”, Journal of Social History 18 (winter 1984), pp. 195216Google Scholar; “Les Trois Huits: Labor Movements, International Reform, and the Origins of the Eight-Hour Day, 1919–1924”, French Historical Studies 14 (1985) 2, pp. 240286Google Scholar. See also Cross, G. (ed.), Worktime and Industrialization. An International History (Philadelphia, 1988).Google Scholar