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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 French Agriculture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Growth without Development -- 2 Industrialization from the Old Regime to the Postrevolutionary Era -- 3 The First Transition to Capitalism: French Industry from the 1850s to the 1920s -- 4 The Agricultural Revolution of the Fifth Republic after the End of the 1950s -- 5 Slow Growth, Relapse and Rapid Capitalist Industrialization from the Interwar Period to the 1970s -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its rivals because of non-capitalist social relations. Specifically, peasants and artisans controlled the lands and workshops in autonomous communities and did not have to improve labor productivity to survive.