Pluriactivités, métier, reconversion. Les horlogers du Faucigny du milieu du XIXe siècle à la crise des années trente
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This article aims at describing the evolution of the place occupied by the watchmaking industry in Faucigny's diversified workplace from the middle of the Nineteenth Century until the crisis of the 1930's. Land remained quite late one of the corner stones of social and economic life, playing a major role in industrialization itself. This transformation owed a lot to foreign actors, bearers of savoir faire, and would pass through grave social conflicts. After the 1870's and 1880's, factories were superimposed upon family workshops, generating new income within the household production activities and considerably augmenting the watchmaking workforce. When times became more difficult, the workforce stabilized and stagnation set in. Conflicts broke out which eventually contributed to a certain professionalization. While the future of watchmaking was growing darker, World War I opened new prospects to the industry. The transformation that ensued nevertheless, did not completely eliminate every form of moonlighting everywhere. The method used herein rests both upon general or quantitative data and on case studies of selected individuals or families.
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Pierre Judet, “Pluriactivités, métier, reconversion. Les horlogers du Faucigny du milieu du XIXe siècle à la crise des années trente”, Cahiers d'histoire [Online], 44-2 | 1999, Online since , connection on 17 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ch/197; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ch.197
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