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Micro-immigrations économiques au XIXe et au début du XXe siècle

L’immigration aux ardoisières de Trélazé : un exemple atypique dans l’histoire minière française (fin XIXe-milieu du XXe siècle)

Pascal Houdemont
p. 125-143

Abstracts

Like other french mining towns, Trélazé has welcomed its share of workers coming from far-off lands. However immigration is still a minor phenomen. The proximity of Brittany and slate mines in which the labour was meek and cheap has made less crucial than anywhere else the need for foreign workers. Furthemore at the beginning of the century there were 83,000 Polish miners in France; a third of the workforce. In Trélazé, the real foreigners were the Breton people who contributed to 50 % of the town’s population in 1908. Legally, although French, by keeping their dialect and customs they became outcast in the eyes of the local population. Immigration primarily was concerned with the spanish community. However due to the large presence of brittany people, slate mining employers did not especially call upon foreign workers. At the beginning of the century, mining programmes looked upon other immigrant communes without even giving the impression of an overwhelming arrival of foreign workers.

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Index terms

Noms de lieux:

Trélazé
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References

Bibliographical reference

Pascal Houdemont, “L’immigration aux ardoisières de Trélazé : un exemple atypique dans l’histoire minière française (fin XIXe-milieu du XXe siècle)”Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest, 109-4 | 2002, 125-143.

Electronic reference

Pascal Houdemont, “L’immigration aux ardoisières de Trélazé : un exemple atypique dans l’histoire minière française (fin XIXe-milieu du XXe siècle)”Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest [Online], 109-4 | 2002, Online since 20 December 2004, connection on 19 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/abpo/1519; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/abpo.1519

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About the author

Pascal Houdemont

Doctorant en histoire contemporaine, HIRES – Université d’Angers

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