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Overview
This book analyzes the processes of proletarianization and urbanization undergone by the St. Petersburg industrial working class from its inception in the early nineteenth-century up until 1914. Attention is focused on the severing of workers' ties to the village and the land. To that end, the thesis examines local conditions in the sending areas and traces the history of factory work in the Russian capital by workers from different provinces.
Synopsis
This book analyzes the processes of proletarianization and urbanization undergone by the St. Petersburg industrial working class from its inception in the early nineteenth-century up until 1914. Attention is focused on the severing of workers' ties to the village and the land. To that end, the thesis examines local conditions in the sending areas and traces the history of factory work in the Russian capital by workers from different provinces.
Booknews
Economakis, a scholar of Russian history (PhD, Columbia U.) and an inhabitant of St. Petersburg since 1995, examines that city's peasant migrant workers from the early 19th century to 1914, studying the ties that kept them in the countryside as well as the forces that drew them into the city. He focuses on three provinces and their different levels of peasant economic well-being and shows the effects of communication, industrial development, and agricultural wage labor. He also discusses recruitment into St. Petersburg industry and whether or not it presupposed a certain skill level. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.