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- Title
The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830, Jeff Horn, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2006.
- Authors
Heller, Henry
- Abstract
Abstract Eschewing a Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution, Jeff Horn's work is nonetheless interesting in stressing the widespread prevalence of machine-breaking by workers in France as compared to England during industrialisation. Likewise notable is Horn's argument that the resultant state-intervention forced France onto a path of industrialisation which differed from England's and which has been underestimated. Breaking with the revisionist consensus, Horn further demonstrates that the effect of the Revolution was positive for French economic development. Refreshing in its stress on working-class militancy, Horn's work nonetheless exaggerates the influence of machine-breaking on French economic change as compared to other forms of working-class struggle, the slow pace of primitive accumulation and the resistance to industrialisation by small-scale urban producers.
- Subjects
PATH Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution 1750-1830, The (Book); HORN, Jeff; INDUSTRIALIZATION; WORKING class; SABOTAGE in the workplace; REVOLUTIONS; JACOBINS; HISTORICAL revisionism
- Publication
Historical Materialism, 2012, Vol 20, Issue 1, p244
- ISSN
1465-4466
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1163/156920612X632809