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Papermaking in eighteenth-century France : management, labor, and revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenband, Leonard N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Montgolfier family.
Paper industry > France > Annonay > History.
Industrial relations > France > Annonay > History.
Papier > Industrie > France > Annonay > Histoire.
Relations industrielles > France > Annonay > Histoire.
Industrial relations.
Paper industry.
France > Annonay.
Montgolfier > Familie
Papierherstellung
Papiermühle
Frankreich
Papierindustrie.
Arbeidsverhoudingen.
Papermaking > France > Annonay > History.
History.
Online Access:ebrary
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Money, Weights, and Measures
  • An Old Industry
  • French Industry in the Eighteenth Century
  • Making Paper
  • The Montgolfiers and Their Craft
  • Rags, Regulation, and Government Stimulation
  • The "Modes" and the Lockout of 1781
  • Building the Beaters and the Journeymen's Custom
  • The Lockout
  • Managing to Rule
  • The New Regime
  • Hiring and Firing
  • Paternalism
  • Wages
  • Discipline
  • Measuring Change
  • Technological Transfer
  • Persistence
  • Attitudes
  • Productivity
  • The Hierarchy of Vats
  • The End of Hand Papermaking
  • The French Revolution and the Papermaking Machine
  • Tables and Graph.