Big Business and Industrial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century France - A Social History of the Parisian Gas Company

Informationen zum Autor Lenard R. Berlanstein is Professor of History at the University of Virginia! and the author of The Barristers of Toulouse in the Eighteenth Century (1975) and The Working People of Paris! 1871-1914 (1984)! both from Johns Hopkins. Klappentext "An original and splendidly researched work. We have nothing of equal depth on a single company! and such a study enhances our understanding of complex issues in the economic! social! and political! and even cultural history of modern France."-John Merriman! Yale University Zusammenfassung Founded in 1855, the Parisian Gas Company (PGC) quickly developed into one of France's greatest industrial enterprises, an exemplar of the new industrial capitalism that was beginning to transform the French economy. Using company archives, this title presents a study that bridges the divide between business, social, and labor history of France.

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• Authors: Lenard R. Berlanstein, Leonard R. Berlanstein, Berlanstein Lenard R.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.1991
• EAN: 9780520072343
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07234-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Energy industries and utilities, Gas industries