""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Money, Weights, and Measures""; ""Part One: An Old Industry""; ""Chapter One: French Industry in the Eighteenth Century""; ""Chapter Two: Making Paper""; ""Chapter Three: The Montgolfiers and Their Craft""; ""Chapter Four: Rags, Regulation, and Government Stimulation""; ""Part Two: The “Modes� and the Lockout of 1781""; ""Chapter Five: Building the Beaters and the Journeymen�s Custom""; ""Chapter Six: The Lockout""; ""Part Three: Managing to Rule""; ""Chapter Seven: The New Regime""; ""Chapter Eight: Hiring and Firing""
Chapter Nine: PaternalismChapter Ten: Wages -- Chapter Eleven: Discipline -- Part Four: Measuring Change -- Chapter Twelve: Technological Transfer -- Chapter Thirteen: Persistence -- Chapter Fourteen: Attitudes -- Chapter Fifteen: Productivity -- Chapter Sixteen: The Hierarchy of Vats -- Part Five: The End of Hand Papermaking -- Chapter Seventeen: The French Revolution and the Papermaking Machine -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Tables and Graph -- Notes -- Note on Sources -- Index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-202) and index
