Papermaking in eighteenth-century France : management, labor, and revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805 /
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| Author / Creator: | Rosenband, Leonard N. |
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| Imprint: | Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000. |
| Description: | xv, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4419356 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Money, Weights, and Measures
- I.. An Old Industry
- 1.. French Industry in the Eighteenth Century
- 2.. Making Paper
- 3.. The Montgolfiers and Their Craft
- 4.. Rags, Regulation, and Government Stimulation
- II.. The "Modes" and the Lockout of 1781
- 5.. Building the Beaters and the Journeymen's Custom
- 6.. The Lockout
- III.. Managing to Rule
- 7.. The New Regime
- 8.. Hiring and Firing
- 9.. Paternalism
- 10.. Wages
- 11.. Discipline
- IV.. Measuring Change
- 12.. Technological Transfer
- 13.. Persistence
- 14.. Attitudes
- 15.. Productivity
- 16.. The Hierarchy of Vats
- V.. The End of Hand Papermaking
- 17.. The French Revolution and the Papermaking Machine
- Conclusion
- Appendix. Tables and Graph
- Notes
- Note on Sources
- Index
