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SUMMARY:French occupational structure and labour productivity: what can ne
 w estimates tell us about the pace and nature of French industrialisation?
  - Dr Alexis Litvine (Cambridge)
DTSTART:20140519T120000Z
DTEND:20140519T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This paper will use new data on labour force to discuss the ev
 olution of French apparent labour productivity since the end of the C18th.
  It shows that revisionist historians (Cameron\, O’Brien and Keyder) wer
 e far too optimistic regarding C19th French industrial performance\, but t
 hat subsequent counter-revisionists accounts failed to acknowledge the ess
 ential structural transformation that defined the French model of develo
 pment before WW1. Thus\, this new evidences partially confirm Crafts’ as
 sessment of France’s modest but not inconsiderable economic performance 
 in the nineteenth century\, though they significantly revise downward Fren
 ch industrial productivity throughout the period.  The paper also analyse
 s the productivity gap between the two countries suggesting that whereas F
 rench industry mostly followed British achievements (emulation)\, the key 
 difference between the two countries was in the structure of agricultural 
 production. The combination of labour-intensive agricultural production an
 d low concentration of industrial waged labour (generalised by-employment)
  made possible by the unique distribution of landownership was the keyston
 e of French economic development before the war.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 5\, Faculty of History
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