Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

Scope and Contents Five French Workers’ record books of various communes in the département of the Loire, arrondissement of St. Êtienne, 1837, 1856, 1867, 1876, with entries up to 1894. The books contain printed extracts of the law relating to employees, and manuscript details of individual workers.Employers recorded the arrival and departure of each employee in his or her livret, and the employee had to carry and show the book to confirm his release from his previous employment; changes were...