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

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

Reddy, William M.

Paperback

Business GeneralEconomicsGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0521347793
ISBN13: 9780521347792
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 25 1987
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.17
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.97 Depth: 8.93
Language: English
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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