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1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-95
Author(s):  
James A. Jaffe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Social History ◽  
Class Formation ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Agencies

Industrial Paternalism: Discourse and Practice in Nineteenth-Century French Mining and Metallurgy

1985 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Reid
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Social History ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
American South ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Industrial Labor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The American South

In recent years paternalism has become one of the most discussed concepts in social history. While historians of women invoke paternalism and patriarchy to help explain relations of male domination, Marxist historians have found paternalism useful in expanding their analyses of class consciousness. Eugene Genovese organized his interpretation of slavery in the American south around paternalism. For E. P. Thompson, the breakdown of the ideology and practice of rural paternalism underlay the development of “class struggle without class” in eighteenth-century England. Despite Genovese's warning that paternalism is an inappropriate concept for understanding industrial society, several recent studies have identified paternalism as an important factor in the history of industrial labor during the nineteenth century. Daniel Walkowitz and Tamara Haraven have analyzed paternalism in the textile industries of upstate New York and southern New Hampshire. Lawrence Schofer and David Crew have studied paternalism in nineteenth-century German heavy industry, and Patrick Joyce has recently argued for its centrality in the restructuring of class relations in the late Victorian textile industry.

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