Reforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class progressives to domesticate the labor force, comparing the experiences of London and Brussels.
Janet L. Polasky is Presidential Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of four other books in European history, including Revolutionary Brussels, 1787¿1793 and The Democratic Socialism of Emile Vandervelde.
