Doctoral Dissertation Research: Building the Roads: Expertise, Labor, and Politics in France, 1720-1799

博士论文研究：修路：法国的专业知识、劳工和政治，1720-1799 年

• 批准号: 1027316
• 负责人: Keith Baker
• 金额: $ 0.66万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1027316&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Building; Roads

Introduction. This research project will serve to enhance a doctoral dissertation that investigates the socially diverse, collaborative process of construction in relation to 18th century political culture and social change. The project focuses on road construction in provincial France. Its goal is to analyze expertise, worker experience, and the politics of local public works projects. This is feasible since the use of unpaid, rural labor (in the corvée des grands chemins) as the principal road construction workforce from the 1730s to the French Revolution generated extensive archives. Previous scholars have preferred to study the products of road construction; as a result, they gave little attention to local practices displayed in these archives, despite the considerable amount of energy that was absorbed by the construction, which was drawn from families, villages, and provincial administrations. Intellectual Merit. The researcher begins with a geographic focus on Brittany. He will study archival documents left by workers, property owners, engineers, parish assemblies, provincial representatives, and royal officials. He will then perform an analysis of local conditions that is to be suitably contextualized by including sections on the origins of the corvée, the resonance of local road construction in Enlightenment economic and legal theories, and Revolutionary administrative and ideological changes. He will also use digital GIS mapping to compare regional data over time and space. The researcher has already noted that constant corvée reforms served to transform parish and provincial culture; it also served as a framework for royal and revolutionary discourse on justice and public utility. The archives reflect a society juggling military, commercial, and administrative initiatives with technological and fiscal limitations. His use of these archival materials will contribute to a better understanding of diversification and mobility in rural labor, urban-rural networks, and distribution of formal expertise and tacit knowledge. It will serve to explain how collectively built highways became secular sites of community action where workers outnumbered engineers and political elites prioritized in earlier scholarship. Potential Broader Impacts. The researcher's dissertation will shed light on the labor issue of construction worker invisibility. As a result, it could provide insight into the cultural, political, and economic networks linking twenty first-century construction workers to local populations and global corporations. Resituating workers in their social and political environment illuminates rich worker-community links. Publication of this dissertation in book form will contribute to education about the social impact of transport systems in Old Regime France and have ramifications for current debates about contemporary counterparts to such systems.

介绍。该研究项目将有助于增强博士学位论文，该论文研究与18世纪的政治文化和社会变革有关的社会潜水，协作的建设过程。该项目着重于法国省的道路建设。它的目标是分析专业知识，工人经验和当地公共工程项目的政治。这是可行的，因为使用无薪，农村劳动（在CorvéeDesGrands Chemins中）作为从1730年代到法国大革命的主要道路建设劳动力，产生了广泛的档案。以前的学者更喜欢研究道路建设的产品。结果，尽管考虑到由家庭，村庄和省级政府吸收的建筑吸收的精力，但他们几乎不关注这些档案中显示的当地实践。智力优点。研究人员始于对布列塔尼的地理重点。他将研究由工人，业主，工程师，教区议会，省级代表和皇家官员留下的档案文件。然后，他将对当地条件进行分析，该分析应通过包括有关Corvée的起源的部分，启蒙运动经济和法律理论的共鸣以及革命性的行政和意识形态变化的共鸣。他还将使用数字GIS映射来比较时间和空间的区域数据。研究人员已经指出，持续的Corvée改革有助于改变教区和省级文化。它也是关于正义和公共事业皇家和革命性论述的框架。这些档案反映了一个社会，该社会兼顾了技术和财政限制的军事，商业和行政计划。他对这些档案材料的使用将有助于更好地理解农村劳动力，城乡网络的多元化和流动性，以及正式专业知识和隐性知识的分配。它将解释集体建造的高速公路如何成为社区行动的安全地点，工人在较早的科学中优先考虑工人的外在编号工程师和政治精英。潜在的更广泛的影响。研究人员的论文将阐明建筑工人的实验室问题。结果，它可以洞悉将二十世纪建筑工人与当地人口和全球公司联系起来的文化，政治和经济网络。在社会和政治环境中重新使工人阐明了富裕的工人社区联系。以书籍形式出版这项论文将有助于教育法国旧政权的交通系统对社会影响的教育，并在当前关于当代对应物与此类系统的辩论中造成了影响。