Les corporations, les « faux ouvriers » et le faubourg Saint-Antoine au XVIIIe siècle - article ; n°2 ; vol.43, pg 353-378

Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1988 - Volume 43 - Numéro 2 - Pages 353-378
Corporations, false workers and the faubourg Saint-Antoine.
Operating outside the norms and controls of the corporate world, false workers were viewed by the guilds as socially illicit, politically seditious, morally cankered, and technically inept. Located in hidden rooms throughout Paris and concentrated especially in the so-called privileged places governed by seigneurial and religious jurisdictions, the false workers created a parallel world of work, seriously compromising corporate domination of the labor market (both by subverting and segmenting it) and the System of discipline that guaranteed social classification and stability. This study focuses on the genesis and developrnent of false work in the largest privileged place, the faubourg St.-Antoine, which was a laboratory of socioeconomic experimentation long before it became the revolutionary quarter par excellence. This article examines the impact of the faubourg on the organization of work, the structures of production, the governance of the guilds, and the political history of the capital.
26 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.