Download or read book Fashion, Work, and Politics in Modern France written by S. Zdatny and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-05-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of coiffure in modern France illuminates a host of important twentieth-century issues: the course of fashion, the travails of small business in a modern economy, the complexities of labour reform, the failure of the Popular Front, the temptations of Pétainism, all accompanied by a parade of waves, chignons, and curls.