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Conference, symposium - History
Industrial hazards and accidents (late 17th – late 19th century)
Technological accidents question our industrial society; they are an inherent part of the “risk society” concept that scientists, sociologists, geographers and anthropologists have popularised since the eighties. However, in order to step back and take a longer term view, historicization of the concept is necessary. Although historians have also begun to examine this question, they have focused primarily on the most contemporary period during which spectacular accidents have occurred and have sometimes led to disasters. But industrial (or artisanal or mining) accidents occurred throughout the earlier economic development process in Europe. They went hand in hand with the emergence of the industrial society that they helped to create.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet
There is renewed interest today in the study of early North American antislavery, and thus Quakers. Yet the French Atlantic dimension of Quakerism has been left unexplored. We thus found it useful to focus on the Atlantic world of Huguenot Anthony Benezet, a mere schoolteacher and the first antislavery propagandist of modern times. Benezet was born in Saint-Quentin in 1713, then left for France eventually to settle in Philadelphia where he converted to the Quaker faith. His antislavery ideas later had a major influence on Quaker communities in North America, but also other antislavery activists on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean at the end of the eighteenth century.
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Santiago de Compostela
Conference, symposium - History
Immigration, the work market and the urban domestic work market in Europe, 18th-18th centuries
Immigration, marché du travail et travail domestique urbain en Europe, XVIIIe-XIXe siècle, 11 avril - 12 avril 2013, Santiago de Compostela.
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Paris
Industrial hazards and accidents (late 17th – late 19th century)
Technological accidents question our industrial society; they are an inherent part of the “risk society” concept that scientists, sociologists, geographers and anthropologists have popularised since the eighties. However, in order to step back and take a longer term view, historicization of the concept is necessary. Although historians have also begun to examine this question, they have focused primarily on the most contemporary period during which spectacular accidents have occurred and have sometimes led to disasters. But industrial (or artisanal or mining) accidents occurred throughout the earlier economic development process in Europe. They went hand in hand with the emergence of the industrial society that they helped to create.
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Dijon
Eating at work (XVIIIe-XXIth centuries)
Eating at work, considered in the broad sense as all food consumption practices related to an employed occupation, both everyday and exceptional, in times of strike or during celebrations, constitutes a privileged observatory of social practices, whether they relate to hierarchical power relations or to horizontal, egalitarian sociability in the world of work. The last three centuries (XVIII-XXI centuries) have seen profound changes in the ways in which food is consumed at work, exposing the transformation of societies and their relationship to work, nutrition and taste. The movement seems to concern Europe and beyond, a dimension to be explored in our work, even so we assume that its rhythms varied widely.
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Paris
Pour la troisième année, ce séminaire propose d’étudier l’émergence des risques et accidents industriels en Europe de la fin du XVIIe à la fin du XIXe siècle (principalement en France et en Angleterre). Il s’agit de rassembler des problématiques souvent disjointes (techniques, économiques, juridiques, médicales, urbaines, etc.) dans une compréhension globale de leur leur incidence sur nos sociétés. En tant qu’objet d’étude à part entière, ils sont étudiées dans toutes leurs dimensions : prévention, action, réparation… Il s’agit de suivre la chaîne chronologique, philosophique et logique du risque et de l’accident, pour mieux éclairer la mise en place de notre civilisation industrielle. Le séminaire privilégie ainsi la question de l’économie de l’accident industriel, entendu dans un sens très large, où peuvent être analysés les dialectiques prévention / réparation, régulation par la loi / par le marché, savoirs et expertise / décisions politiques, économie / écologie, ou encore techniques et organisations / responsabilités humaines.
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