The Path Not Taken

French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1830, Jeff Horn, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2006

Bibliographic Data

ID12673091
AuthorsHenry Heller (University of Manitoba, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume20
Issue1
Pages244-252
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistorical Materialism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-4466 • E-ISSN: 1569-206X
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/156920612x632809
OpenAlexW1987306229
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

Eschewing a Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution, Jeff Horn’s work is nonetheless interesting in stressing the widespread prevalence of machine-breaking by workers in France as compared to England during industrialisation. Likewise notable is Horn’s argument that the resultant state-intervention forced France onto a path of industrialisation which differed from England’s and which has been underestimated. Breaking with the revisionist consensus, Horn further demonstrates that the effect of the Revolution was positive for French economic development. Refreshing in its stress on working-class militancy, Horn’s work nonetheless exaggerates the influence of machine-breaking on French economic change as compared to other forms of working-class struggle, the slow pace of primitive accumulation and the resistance to industrialisation by small-scale urban producers

Argument (complex analysis · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · French horn · Geography · Industrialisation · Marxist philosophy · Pace · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Working class · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Political Economy and Marxism

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