This chapter focuses on the emergence of industrial pauperism in France during the first half of the 19th century. It explores the liberal elites’ first responses to the spread of new forms of exclusion and deprivation which were determined by the advent of the industrial regime. Hence, it retraces the rise of unprecedented activities of social investigation that focused on the subaltern classes in an effort to develop a scientific understanding of the problem of pauperism. The aim of the chapter is to describe the way in which these investigations progressively brought the issue of wage labour into focus as an object of scientific knowledge and administration, and as a pivot to develop strategies for governing the ‘social question’. To exemplify this process, the chapter considers the work of Louis-René Villermé, a social research pioneer who conducted the first inquiry on labour in European history.
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Chapter Title
Louis René Villermé: la nascita dell’inchiesta sul lavoro all’origine delle moderne scienze sociali
Authors
Federico Tomasello
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.75
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919