Problematising capitalism
Importing capitalism to France
The old regime false start : attempts at liberal reforms and the absence of a transition to capitalism in absolutist France
Absolutist France vs capitalist England
British competition and French liberal reactions
An extensive mode of economic development
Non-capitalist industrialisation in post-revolutionary France
Nineteenth-century France economic development : the revisionist account
Contrasting French and English nineteenth-century industrial development
The non-competitive nature of French markets
The development of cotton production and metallurgy
Opportunity-driven growth in non-competitive markets
The French revolution and the customary regulation of labour
Reassessing the French revolution
Guilds and workers' struggles under the old regime
The persistence of customary regulations and aspects of labour emancipation in post-revolutionary France
The absence of labour subsumption by capital in post-revolutionary France
The rise of the French working class : republican and socialist struggles against extra-economic exploitation
The composition and the making of the French working class
Notables, the state, and the perpetuation of non-capitalist surplus appropriation
Pinning down social ills, naming the antagonists
The revolution of 1830 and the rise of a republican-socialist working class
The revolution of 1848 and the (interrupted) rise of the democratic and social republic
The state-led capitalist transformation of French industry
Geopolitical competition and capitalist industrialisation
Building foundations: the making of a competitive market
The erosion of customary regulations and the subsumption of labour
The emergence of capitalist patterns of investment
Changing modes of surplus appropriation and (partial) state restructuring
Capitalism and the re-making of the French working class
The re-composition of the working class
The labour movement under the second empire and the Paris Commune
The rise of the strike : refusing the depoliticisation of production
The transformation of class relations and the rise of an autonomous socialist working-class movement
