- Prologue
- Assessing French Economic Development
- Some Preliminary Considerations
- Plan of the Book
- Introduction: Laying the Foundations for Modern Capitalism in France, 1500–1800
- Creating France
- The Rise of Merchant Capitalism
- The Beginning of Industrial Capitalism
- Banking and Finance
- The French Revolution
- Aftermath of Revolution
- I. From Merchant Capitalism to Finance Capitalism
- 1. Continuity and Change in Merchant Capitalism, 1800–1840s
- Retrenchment and Renewal in Provincial France
- Paris and the Remaking of French Merchant Capitalism
- 2. The Revolution in Banking and Transportation, 1840–1870s
- The Banking Revolution
- The Transportation Revolution
- 3. The New World of Financial and Commercial Capitalism, 1870s–1900s
- The Maturation of Banking and Finance
- Transforming and Transcending the Wholesale Trade
- The Beginnings of Mass Retailing
- 1. Continuity and Change in Merchant Capitalism, 1800–1840s
- II. The Flowering of Industrial Capitalism, 1800–1900
- 4. Textile Capitalism
- Cotton
- Linen and Jute
- Woolens
- Silk
- 5. The Capitalism of Coal
- The Birth and Maturation of an Industry, 1700s–1860
- The Coal Companies in the Their Prime, 1860–1914
- 6. The Capitalism of Iron and Steel
- From the Old to the New Metallurgy, 1800–1860
- The Age of Steel Begins, 1860–1880
- 7. Hardware, Machinery, and Construction
- The Hardware Industry Transformed
- The New Metallurgical Manufacturing
- 8. The Capitalism of Chemicals
- Heavy Chemicals
- The New Chemicals
- 9. The Capitalism of Glass, Paper, and Print
- Glass
- Paper and Print
- 10. Industrial Capitalism and Consumer Goods
- Flour and Breadstuffs
- Sugar and Confectionery
- Soap and Vegetable Oil
- Clothing and Home Furnishings
- 11. The New World of Industrial Capitalism
- Financing Industrial Enterprise
- Managing Labor
- Managing the Business Environment
- 4. Textile Capitalism
- III. The Second Industrial Revolution and the Beginnings of Managerial Capitalism, 1880S–1930s
- 12. Big Steel
- The Remaking of French Iron and Steel, 1870s–1914
- World War I and Its Aftermath
- 13. The Electrical Industry
- The Early Years, 1890s–1914
- Growth, Maturation, and the Rise of Big Business, 1914–1930
- 14. The Automobile and Its Allies
- The Automobile Industry
- Tire and Rubber
- Aircraft and Aircraft Engines
- Petroleum
- 15. Industrial Chemicals and Materials
- The Survival and Transformation of Two Established Powers
- Electrochemicals and Electrometals
- Industrial Gases
- Pharmaceuticals and Artificial Fibers
- Big Cement
- 16. The New World of Managerial Capitalism
- Managing the Railroads
- Managing the Large Industrial Enterprise
- Conclusion: France on the Verge
- 12. Big Steel
- Notes
- Index
- Tables
- 1. The twenty largest French coal companies, 1865–1869 and 1890–1894
- 2. France’s fifty largest manufacturing firms, 1936
- 3. The twenty-five largest French iron and steel firms in 1913
- 4. The twenty-five largest French iron and steel firms in 1930
- 5. France’s largest electrical enterprises in 1929–1930
- 6. Assets and workforces of the largest American, German, and French electrical manufacturing companies in 1929–1930
- 7. The thirty largest French industrial firms in 1990
HARVARD STUDIES IN BUSINESS HISTORY
Harvard Studies in Business History 49
The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800–1930
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Publication Date: 01/15/2006
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