Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France

Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

AvLeonard N. Rosenband,Utah State University) Rosenband, Leonard N. (Professor Emeritus,Leonard N Rosenband

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Eight years before the French Revolution, the paper mill at Vidalon-le-Haut was the setting for a bitter strike and successful lockout. This labor dispute, resulting from conflicts between master papermakers and skilled journeymen, ultimately benefitted the mill's owners and administrators-the Montgolfier family. They converted the 1781 lockout into an opportunity to train a new kind of worker, a malleable employee, and to fashion a new sort of workplace, a theater of technological experiment. Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805, gives us history from the workshop up, offering the most comprehensive exploration available of the historical experience of papermaking. Leonard N. Rosenband explains how paper was made, depicting the tools, techniques, raw materials, and seasonable flows of the craft, and explores the many conflicts and compromises between masters and men. Rosenband provides a compelling account of how technological change affected the papermaking industry, transforming an elaborate, established system of production.The Montgolfier archives are a rich source of information, providing records of daily output and procedures, including complex rules ranging from the precise hours of meals and prayer to matters of propriety and personal sanitation. They also provide insight into the attitudes of the Montgolfier family and their workers-what they made of their trade, their labor, and one another. This case study of the Montgolfier mill, adding details about technological innovation and shopfloor relations during a time of social unrest, enriches the current debate about the nature and impact of capitalism in France during the years leading up to the French Revolution.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-11-10
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt425 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801863929

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsMoney, Weights, and MeasuresPart I: An Old IndustryChapter 1. French Industry in the Eighteenth CenturyChapter 2. Making PaperChapter 3. The Montgolfiers and Their CraftChapter 4. Rags, Regulation, and Government StimulationPart II: The "Modes" and the Lockout of 1781Chapter 5. Building the Beaters and the Journeymen's CustomChapter 6. The LockoutPart III: Managing to Rule Chapter 7. The New RegimeChapter 8. Hiring and FiringChapter 9. PaternalismChapter 10. WagesChapter 11. DisciplinePart IV: Measuring ChangeChapter 12. Technological TransferChapter 13. PersistenceChapter 14. AttitudesChapter 15. ProductivityChapter 16. The Hierarchy of VatsPart V: The End of Hand PapermakingChapter 17. The French Revolution and the Papermaking MachineConclusionAppendix: Tables and GraphNotesNote on SourcesIndexIllustrations Appear on Pages 16-21

A richly textured account... The benefit to Rosenband's approach is its nuance and richness of detail that allows readers to enter into the world of papermaking and to follow the peculiar logic of the culture and institutional arrangements of this industry. Those who want to experience one segment of an evolving artisanal world of work from the ground up will find much to savor. -- Gail Bossenga Journal of Interdisciplinary History While Leonard N. Rosenband's monograph is primarily a study of one mill and its enterprising owners, it can serve as an English-language introduction to the whole subject of artisanal papermaking. -- David Longfellow American Historical Review Elegantly written and well researched. -- Michael Huberman EH.Net A significant contribution to an almost unknown economic sector, papermaking... As interesting for the historian of Modern France before the Revolution as it is for the historian of the nineteenth-century economy. Both will find in Rosenband's work reliable information, deep knowledge and reflection. -- Marc de Ferriere Le Vayer Business History Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France provides a fresh model for historians... This book poses a fundamental challange to many orthodox methods and conventional approaches in economic history and the history of technology. It raises an many questions as it answers... With any luck, it will motivate others to tend this rich and, until now, relatively unculitvated ground. -- Andre Wakefield Technology and Culture Many will profit from Rosenband's long study and clear narrative. -- James E. May Eighteenth Century: Current Bibliography