Factory Journal (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Simone Weil
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Work: Diary
- Time of Work: 1934
- Setting: Paris
- Principal Characters: Simone Weil
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary, Journalism
- Subjects: Factories, Suffering, 1930’s, Oppression, Women, Accidents, Working class, Capitalism, Work or workers, Employment or employees, Labor, Proletariat, Employees, dismissal
- Locales: Paris, France, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Form and Content
In December of 1934, the French writer Simone Weil, teacher, scholar, political activist, and advocate for the underprivileged, was engaged as an unskilled laborer in the Alsthom factory, a plant near Paris that manufactured equipment for subways and streetcars. For the next several months, she worked at Alsthom, Carnaud, and Renault. This frail young woman’s activities and impressions were recorded in an unedited diary which became the source for several more polished but less graphic writings on factory life. The factory experience had a profound effect on...
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