TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Local Life in Working-Class Paris at the end of the Nineteenth Century
JO  - Journal of urban history
A1  - Faure, Alain
SP  - 761
EP  - 772
VL  - 32
IS  - 5
N2  - This article questions the emphasis that many historians have placed on community and solidarity in nineteenth-century working-class neighborhoods, and the associated idea that these values were under-mined by improved housing, social welfare systems, urban transit, and growing links with the outside world. Taking late nineteenth-century Paris as a case study, it shows that working-class neighborhoods always contained strong internal tensions and that forced proximity did not necessarily create solidarity. Far from being communitarian in outlook, people had a strong sense of private life and of boundaries. Poverty and unstable employment made residential and daily mobility so high, well before mass transit arrived, that attachment to a single neighborhood was impossible. Neighborhood solidarities did exist, but they were only one small aspect of urban life.<p /> 
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SN  - 0096-1442
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144206287098
ID  - ref1
ER  -