Economic crisis and the petite bourgeoisie in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This article presents a report on the fourth round table discussion by the European Research Group on the problems of the Petite Bourgeoisie in the 19th- and 20th-century Europe. The round table discussion was held in Paris-Nanterre, France on May 4-5, 1984. The scholarly discussion started with a group of three papers on the impact of economic crisis in the late 1840s. The discussion centered essentially on two points. Several social historians and their works were mentioned by participants in the discussion.