The Rise of Market Culture : The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750–1900 (Paperback)

List of figures and maps; List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. A World Without Entrepreneurs, 1750?1815: 1. Commerce as conflict; 2. The design of the spinning jenny; 3. New terms and old practices; Part II. Uses of the Market Idea, 1816?1851: 4. The first crisis of management; 5. Spinners on guard; 6. Visions of subsistence; 7. A search for identity; Part III. Unquestioned Assumptions, 1852?1904: 8. The clock time of the Second Empire; 9. The moral sense of farce; 10. Little insurrections; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliographical note; Index.