Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805

by Leonard N. Rosenband

Eight years before the French Revolution, the paper mill at Vidalon-le-Haut was the setting for a bitter strike and successful lockout. This labor dispute, resulting from conflicts between master papermakers and skilled journeymen, ultimately benefitted the mill's owners and administrators--the Montgolfier family. They converted the 1781 lockout into an opportunity to train a new kind of worker, a malleable employee, and to fashion a new sort of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801863929
• ISBN13: 9780801863929
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"