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Les ouvriers européens. Tome premier [-6me].

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Second, greatly enlarged edition. This groundbreaking, comprehensive work of sociology, which examines the working condition, domestic life and psychological aspects of European workers, had appeared in its first form in 1855 a single volume. ‘Since public opinion was not yet ready to accept his conclusions, he reduced his text to a brief commentary on his monographs, and confined himself to a short appendix, in which he declared that “his method had allowed him to find the eternal traditions of humanity throughout Europe”. Encouraged by the Academy of Sciences, which awarded him the Montyon Prize for Statistics, he founded, in 1856, the Society of Social Economy which, inspired by the method of its founder and faithful to its traditions, contributed greatly to the progress of social science’ (Annales des Mines).

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