Laureates of the 2023 Social History Mattei Dogan Prize

Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan and of the FMSH for a thesis of excellency

The prize of social History is awarded to two PhD thesis on social History, in every sense of the term, from the 19th to the 20th century, and dealing with France or one or various foreign countries or a transnational subject.

The 2023 Mattei Dogan prize is awarded to Jean-Christophe Balois-Proyart and Daniela Duran.

Ouvriers et fabricants au temps du capitalisme marchand. De la désincorporation des métiers à l'incorporation du travail (France, 1789-1848)

Jean-Christophe Balois-Proyart, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

This research follows in the footsteps of historiographic trends which, since the 1970s, have challenged the narrative of the Industrial Revolution. Up until then, this Revolution was seen as a technological and energy revolution that, from the beginning of the 19th century, led to the mechanization of work, the concentration of the workforce and the introduction of factory discipline. This revolution could only have taken place after the triumph of economic liberalism. Since the 1970s, historians have continued to draw conclusions from these revisions, to the point where the idea has taken hold that the first phase of industrialization took place within the framework of a specific economic and social organization modeled as commodity capitalism. In this type of organization, the sharing of value is based primarily on control of supplies and outlets. The emergence of industrial capitalism in France was therefore postponed until after the mid-19th century.

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Expertise et politique au cœur de la coopération au développement France-Chili : le bureau d'études IRAM dans la Réforme agraire chilienne (1964-1973), Université Rennes 2

Daniela Duran, Université Rennes 2

This research focuses on the intervention of the Institut de recherche et d'applications des méthodes de développement (IRAM) in the Chilean Agrarian Reform between 1964 and 1973. This anthropological study leads to an analysis of the "French technical cooperation for development" field set up under the impetus of Charles de Gaulle. Technical cooperation arose as a corollary to the reconversion of France's colonial ties with Africa, in the context of African independence in the so-called "Third World". De Gaulle sought to export this French influence to Latin America, and began a dialogue with the Chilean Christian Democrat project led by Eduardo Frei (1964-1970).