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

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Rosenband, Leonard N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Money, Weights, and Measures""; ""Part One: An Old Industry""; ""Chapter One: French Industry in the Eighteenth Century""; ""Chapter Two: Making Paper""; ""Chapter Three: The Montgolfiers and Their Craft""; ""Chapter Four: Rags, Regulation, and Government Stimulation""; ""Part Two: The “Modesâ€? and the Lockout of 1781""; ""Chapter Five: Building the Beaters and the Journeymenâ€?s Custom""; ""Chapter Six: The Lockout""; ""Part Three: Managing to Rule""; ""Chapter Seven: The New Regime""; ""Chapter Eight: Hiring and Firing""
  • Chapter Nine: PaternalismChapter Ten: Wages
  • Chapter Eleven: Discipline
  • Part Four: Measuring Change
  • Chapter Twelve: Technological Transfer
  • Chapter Thirteen: Persistence
  • Chapter Fourteen: Attitudes
  • Chapter Fifteen: Productivity
  • Chapter Sixteen: The Hierarchy of Vats
  • Part Five: The End of Hand Papermaking
  • Chapter Seventeen: The French Revolution and the Papermaking Machine
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Tables and Graph
  • Notes
  • Note on Sources
  • Index.