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.

导论.这个研究项目将有助于提高博士论文，探讨社会多元化，建设有关18世纪的政治文化和社会变革的协作过程。该项目的重点是法国各省的道路建设。它的目标是分析专业知识，工人的经验，以及当地公共工程项目的政治。这是可行的，因为从18世纪30年代到法国大革命期间，使用无报酬的农村劳动力（在大篷车的劳役中）作为主要的道路建设劳动力，产生了大量的档案。以前的学者更喜欢研究道路建设的产品;因此，他们很少关注这些档案中展示的地方实践，尽管建设吸收了相当多的能量，这些能量来自家庭，村庄和省级政府。 智力优势。研究人员从布列塔尼的地理重点开始。他将研究工人、业主、工程师、教区议会、省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，并通过包括关于苦役起源的部分进行适当的背景化，启蒙运动经济和法律的理论中当地道路建设的共鸣，以及革命性的行政和意识形态变化。他还将使用数字地理信息系统绘图来比较时间和空间上的区域数据。研究者已经注意到，不断的劳役改革有助于改变教区和地方文化;它也是皇家和革命者关于正义和公共事业的讨论的框架。这些档案反映了一个在技术和财政限制下玩弄军事、商业和行政举措的社会。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的多样化和流动性，城乡网络以及正式专业知识和隐性知识的分布。它将有助于解释集体建造的高速公路如何成为社区行动的世俗场所，在早期的学术研究中，工人的数量超过了工程师和政治精英。潜在的更广泛的影响。研究者的论文将对建筑工人隐形的劳动问题有所启示。因此，它可以提供深入的文化，政治和经济网络连接21世纪的建筑工人，当地人口和全球公司。重新安置工人在他们的社会和政治环境照亮了丰富的工人社区的联系。这篇论文以书籍的形式出版将有助于教育旧制度法国的交通系统的社会影响，并对当前有关当代同行对这种系统的辩论产生影响。