The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750–1900 - Rilegato

Reddy, William M.

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ISBN 10: 0521256534 ISBN 13: 9780521256537

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Riassunto

Combining the perspectives of anthropology and social history, Professor Reddy traces the transition from precapitalist to capitalist culture in the French textile industry from 1750 to 1900. He shows how and why a new conception of the social order based on the idea of the market began to emerge, and examines the attendant political and social conflict. Focusing on the northern regional centres in France which led the movement toward mechanisation, the author - employs the methods of cultural anthropology to find that even by 1900 French textile labourers had failed to develop a social identity commensurate with the idea of wage labour. This discovery leads him to a critique of the market idea that suggests radical and prevalent interpretations of the social history of industrialisation as well as of the concept of 'class consciousness'.

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Professor Reddy traces the transition from pre-capitalist to capitalist culture in the French textile industry from 1750 to 1900. Using anthropology and social history, he shows how and why the conception of the social order based on the idea of the market began to emerge, and examines the attendant political and social conflict.

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List of figures and maps; List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. A World Without Entrepreneurs, 1750–1815: 1. Commerce as conflict; 2. The design of the spinning jenny; 3. New terms and old practices; Part II. Uses of the Market Idea, 1816–1851: 4. The first crisis of management; 5. Spinners on guard; 6. Visions of subsistence; 7. A search for identity; Part III. Unquestioned Assumptions, 1852–1904: 8. The clock time of the Second Empire; 9. The moral sense of farce; 10. Little insurrections; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliographical note; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0521256534
• ISBN 13: 9780521256537
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352