Gender and machine-breaking: violence and mechanization at the dawn of the industrial age (England and France 1750-1850)
Machine-breaking was a recurrent form of violence in England and France at the beginning of the industrial era. Historians have mainly depicted this kind of protest as a male practice, suggesting the dominance of a masculine conception of social relations and labor disputes. Yet, far from being marg...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:cliowgh_284 https://doi.org/10.4000/cliowgh.284 urn:doi:10.4000/cliowgh.284 en https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/284 2017-04-20T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e3qx All rights reserved Gender and machine-breaking: violence and mechanization at the dawn of the industrial age (England and France 1750-1850) Clio Belin info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2554-3822 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh Jarrige, François gender industrialization popular protest mechanization workers genre industrialisation protestation populaire mécanisation ouvriers Machine-breaking was a recurrent form of violence in England and France at the beginning of the industrial era. Historians have mainly depicted this kind of protest as a male practice, suggesting the dominance of a masculine conception of social relations and labor disputes. Yet, far from being marginal or invisible, women were well represented in these conflicts, not only as auxiliaries to men but also as participants, combatting the machines that affected their domestic production and their lifestyle. In considering the gender of machine-breaking, the aim of this paper is twofold: first, to study how machines reconstruct work in gendered terms, with significant differences across sectors and regions; secondly, it seeks to examine how gender identities shaped popular protests at the start of the industrial age. Les bris de machines constituent un type de violence récurrent en Angleterre et en France au début de l’ère industrielle. Ce type de violence contestataire a été peint essentiellement sous les traits d’une pratique masculine, impliquant le triomphe d’une conception virile des rapports sociaux et des conflits du travail. Loin d’être marginales ou invisibles, les femmes sont pourtant bien présentes dans ces conflits, à la fois comme auxiliaires des hommes mais aussi comme actrices de plein droit insurgées contre les machines qui portent atteinte à la production domestique et à leur mode de vie. En examinant le genre des bris de machines, il s’agit à la fois de suivre comment les machines requalifient en termes sexués le travail, avec des différences importantes selon les secteurs et les régions, mais aussi comment interviennent les identités de genre dans le façonnement des protestations populaires au début de l’âge industriel. |
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Machine-breaking was a recurrent form of violence in England and France at the beginning of the industrial era. Historians have mainly depicted this kind of protest as a male practice, suggesting the dominance of a masculine conception of social relations and labor disputes. Yet, far from being marginal or invisible, women were well represented in these conflicts, not only as auxiliaries to men but also as participants, combatting the machines that affected their domestic production and their lifestyle. In considering the gender of machine-breaking, the aim of this paper is twofold: first, to study how machines reconstruct work in gendered terms, with significant differences across sectors and regions; secondly, it seeks to examine how gender identities shaped popular protests at the start of the industrial age. |
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Jarrige, François |
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Jarrige, François |
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Jarrige, François |
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Gender and machine-breaking: violence and mechanization at the dawn of the industrial age (England and France 1750-1850) |
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Gender and machine-breaking: violence and mechanization at the dawn of the industrial age (England and France 1750-1850) |
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Gender and machine-breaking: violence and mechanization at the dawn of the industrial age (England and France 1750-1850) |
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Gender and machine-breaking: violence and mechanization at the dawn of the industrial age (England and France 1750-1850) |
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Gender and machine-breaking: violence and mechanization at the dawn of the industrial age (England and France 1750-1850) |
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gender and machine-breaking: violence and mechanization at the dawn of the industrial age (england and france 1750-1850) |
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