The Transition To Capitalism In Modern France
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Author | : Xavier Lafrance |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2023-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000990648 |
Historians, since the 1960s, argue that the French economy performed as well as did any economy in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries thanks to the opportunities for profit available on the market, especially the large consumer market in Paris. Whatever economic weaknesses existed did not stem from the social structure but from exogenous forces such as wars, the lack of natural resources or slow demographic growth. This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its rivals because of noncapitalist social relations. Specifically, peasants and artisans controlled lands and workshops in autonomous communities and did not have to improve labor productivity to survive. Merchants and manufacturers cornered markets instead of being subject to the market’s competitive imperatives. Thus, distinctive features of capitalism—primitive accumulation (the dispossession of peasants and artisans) and the competitive obligation faced by merchants and manufacturers to reinvest profits in order to keep the profits—did not prevail until the state imposed them in a process lasting for a century after the 1850s. For this reason, it was not until the 1960s that France caught up to (and in some cases surpassed) its economic rivals.
Author | : Xavier Lafrance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Capitalism |
ISBN | : 9780367553043 |
"Historians, since the 1960s, argue that the French economy performed as well as did any economy in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries thanks to the opportunities for profit available on the market, especially the large consumer market in Paris. Whatever economic weaknesses existed did not stem from the social structure but from exogenous forces such as wars, the lack of natural resources, or slow demographic growth. This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its rivals because of non-capitalist social relations. Specifically, peasants and artisans controlled the lands and workshops in autonomous communities and did not have to improve labor productivity to survive. Merchants and manufacturers cornered markets instead of being subject to the market's competitive imperatives. These distinctive features of capitalism, primitive accumulation (the dispossession of peasants and artisans) and the competitive obligation faced by merchants and manufacturers to reinvest profits in order to keep the profits, did not prevail until the state imposed them in a process lasting for a century after the 1850s. For this reason, it was not until the 1960s that France caught up to (and in some cases surpassed) its economic rivals"--
Author | : Bruno Amable |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0198787812 |
This book analyses the changes that took place in the French political economy since the 1980s. It links the question of the economic institutions that characterize the French variety of capitalism to the search for a socio-political equilibrium.
Author | : Xavier Lafrance |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019-02-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004276343 |
In The Making of Capitalism in France, Xavier Lafrance offers the first thorough analysis of the origins of French capitalism, understood as distinct type of historical society and implying a new mode of class exploitation.
Author | : Richard F. Kuisel |
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Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Jacques Emmanuel Chaim Laden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Çağlar Keyder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Capitalism |
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Author | : Robert S. Duplessis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1997-09-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521397735 |
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, the long-established structures and practices of European agriculture and industry were slowly, disparately, but profoundly transformed. Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe, first published in 1997, narrates and analyzes the diverse patterns of economic change that permanently modified rural and urban production, altered Europe's economy and geography, and gave birth to new social classes. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, the book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from thoughout Mediterranean, east-central, and western Europe, as well as to the classic interpretations and current debates and revisions. The study incorporates scholarship on topics such as the world economy and women's work, and it discusses at length the impact of the emergent capitalist order on Europe's working people.
Author | : Richard F. Kuisel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994 |
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Author | : Stefano Palombarin |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1788733584 |
Why centrist politics in France is bound to fail This book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its most acute phase in more than thirty years with the break-up of traditional left and right social blocs. Governing parties have distanced themselves from the working classes, leaving behind on the one hand, craftsmen, shop owners and small entrepreneurs disappointed by the timidity of the reforms of the neoliberal right and, on the other hand, workers and employees hostile to the neoliberal and pro-European integration orientation of the Socialist Party. The Presidency of François Hollande was less an anomaly than the definitive failure of attempts to reconcile the social base of the left with the so-called "modernisation" of the French model. The project, based on the pursuit of neoliberal reforms, did not die with Hollande's failure; it was taken up and radicalised by his successor, Emmanuel Macron. This project needs a social base, the 'bourgeois bloc", designed to overcome the right/left divide by a new alliance between the middle and upper classes. But this, as we have seen recently on the streets of Paris and elsewhere, is a precarious process.