Capitalism and Class Formation in the Angers Slate Fields, 1750-1891

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dc.contributor.advisorSheridan, Georgeen_US
dc.contributor.authorO'Neill, Nicholasen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-29T17:45:23Z
dc.date.available2014-09-29T17:45:23Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-29
dc.description.abstractThe wave of working-class radicalism that swept across France at the turn of the twentieth century has largely been attributed by historians to the pressures of industrialization undermining traditional methods and organizations of labor. However, the Angers slate mining industry experienced a very stable production process from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries limited as much by the environment as by the economy. Working-class formation here instead must be understood in contradistinction to capitalist-class formation coming in response to those same economic and environment factors. The steady growth of an entrepreneurial class in the slate mines around Angers, France, took place within a legal and social framework that allowed mine investors to begin associating and identifying as a class distinct from their workers. It was against this capitalist-class formation that workers began organizing in order to preserve the social organizations and independence they had enjoyed in the pre-capitalist era.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/18360
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectCapitalismen_US
dc.subjectFranceen_US
dc.subjectLaboren_US
dc.subjectMiningen_US
dc.subjectSlateen_US
dc.titleCapitalism and Class Formation in the Angers Slate Fields, 1750-1891en_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Historyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US

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