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• 31 mai 2017

  Paris

  Study days - Representation

  Architecture and the decorative arts in the age of Percier and Fontaine

  Organisée à l'occasion de l’exposition « Charles Percier » (Bard Graduate Center / Château de Fontainebleau, commissariat : J.-P. Garric), cette journée d'études permettra de s'interroger sur différentes thématiques en rapport avec la production architecturale et décorative au temps de Percier et Fontaine.

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• 15 mai 2017

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Agencies and labour regulation in building sites

  13th - 19th centuries

  Through the historical process that western European societies have known since Middle age to the dawn of contemporary age, it has never been supposed that labour in the construction sector - although it is often acknowledged to have played a decisive role in economic - may have been decided, controlled and managed by several institutions that overlapped their influence. Public entities, intermediate organizations and private actors performed in different ways in the labour market, for instance by cooperating, competing, or even conflicting. Nonetheless, they all were involved in labour regulation and workforce organization. An interesting question relates to the nature of regulating authorities, of the overlapping of their competences and their strength, considering the different nature of labour in building sites (free, forced, organized)

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