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The Making of Capitalism in France Xavier LaFrance

The Making of Capitalism in France By Xavier LaFrance

The Making of Capitalism in France by Xavier LaFrance


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Political Scientist Xavier Lafrance provides a pathbreaking account of the emergence of capitalism in France.

The Making of Capitalism in France Summary

The Making of Capitalism in France: Class Structures, Economic Development, the State and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1750-1914 by Xavier LaFrance

Very few authors have addressed the origins of capitalism in France as the emergence of a distinct form of historical society, premised on a new configuration of social power, rather than as an extension of commercial activities liberated from feudal obstacles. Xavier Lafrance offers the first thorough historical analysis of the origins of capitalist social property relations in France from a 'political Marxis' or 'Capital-centric Marxist' perspective. Putting emphasis on the role of the state, The Making of Capitalism in France shows how the capitalist system was first imported into France in an industrial form considerably later than is usually assumed. This work demonstrates that the French Revolution was not capitalist, and in fact consolidated customary regulations that formed the bedrock of the formation of the working class.

About Xavier LaFrance

Xavier Lafrance, Ph.D. (2013), York University, is Professor of political science at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. With Charles Post, he is the editor of Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism(Palgrave 2018).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 

Introduction 
Problematising Capitalism 
Importing Capitalism to France 

Chapter 1 The Old Regime False Start: Attempts at Liberal Reforms 
and the Absence of a Transition to Capitalism in Absolutist France 
Absolutist France vs Capitalist England 
British Competition and French Liberal Reactions 
An Extensive Mode of Economic Development 

Chapter 2 Non-Capitalist Industrialisation in Post-Revolutionary France 
Nineteenth-Century France Economic Development: The Revisionist Account 
Contrasting French and English Nineteenth-Century Industrial Development 
The Non-Competitive Nature of French Markets 
The Development of Cotton Production and Metallurgy 
Opportunity-Driven Growth in Non-Competitive Markets 

Chapter 3 The French Revolution and the Customary Regulation of Labour 
Reassessing the French Revolution 
Guilds and Workers’ Struggles under the Old Regime 
The Persistence of Customary Regulations and Aspects of Labour Emancipation in Post-Revolutionary France 
The Absence of Labour Subsumption by Capital in Post-Revolutionary France 

Chapter 4 The Rise of the French Working Class: Republican and Socialist Struggles against Extra-Economic Exploitation 
The Composition and the Making of the French Working Class 
Notables, the State, and the Perpetuation of Non-Capitalist Surplus
Appropriation 
Pinning Down Social Ills, Naming the Antagonists 
The Revolution of 1830 and the Rise of a Republican-Socialist Working Class 
The Revolution of 1848 and the (Interrupted) Rise of the Democratic and Social Republic 

Chapter 5 The State-Led Capitalist Transformation of French Industry 
Geopolitical Competition and Capitalist Industrialisation 
Building Foundations: The Making of a Competitive Market 
The Erosion of Customary Regulations and the Subsumption of Labour 
The Emergence of Capitalist Patterns of Investment 
Changing Modes of Surplus Appropriation and (Partial) State Restructuring 

Chapter 6 Capitalism and the Re-Making of the French Working Class 
The Re-Composition of the Working Class 
The Labour Movement under the Second Empire and the Paris Commune 
The Rise of the Strike: Refusing the Depoliticisation of Production 
The Transformation of Class Relations and the Rise of an
Autonomous Socialist Working-Class Movement 

Conclusion 
References 
Index

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CIN1642591882VG
9781642591880
1642591882
The Making of Capitalism in France: Class Structures, Economic Development, the State and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1750-1914 by Xavier LaFrance
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