Xavier Lafrance. The Making of Capitalism in France.

Contents

Introduction

1 – The Old Regime False Start: Attempts at Liberal Reforms and the Absence of a Transition to Capitalism in Absolutist France

2 – Non-capitalist Industrialisation in Post-revolutionary France

3 – The French Revolution and the Customary Regulation of Labour

4 – The Rise of the French Working Class: Republican and Socialist Struggles against Extra-Economic Exploitation

5 – The State-Led Capitalist Transformation of French Industry

6 – Capitalism and the Re-making of the French Working Class

Conclusion