Industry and Politics in Rural France : : Industry and Politics in Rural France: Peasants of the Isère, 1870-1914 / / Raymond A. Jonas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Jonas, Raymond A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 7 maps, 5 charts/graphs

French socialism in the nineteenth century was largely confined to its Parisian adherents, but the process of industrialization in rural France began to create opportunities for socialists to expand their movement after the fall of the Paris Commune in 1871. In this book Raymond A. Jonas offers a study of socialist success by focusing on one department in southeastern rural France, the Isère, where the silk industry converted peasants into workers and brought a thriving and dynamic local economy to towns, villages, and hamlets. Jonas shows how women's wages arrested the rural exodus because they subsidized peasant farming and gave women a powerful lever with which to reshape household relations and village society.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Carnival in Vizille -- 2. Geographical and Temperamental Landscapes -- 3. From the Workshop to the Factory: The Silk Industry in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Peasants into Workers: Labor and the Silk Industry -- 5. A Barrier against the Rural Exodus? Some Demographic Consequences of Rural Industry -- 6. A Working Class Formed in the State of Nature? -- 7. Public Order and Public Opinion: Workers, Family, Community -- 8. Peasants, Industry, and Politics -- Bibliography -- Index