Doctoral Dissertation Research: Cultivating the Nation, Refining Empire: Wine, Sugar, and Nation-building in Guadeloupe and Languedoc, 1880-1910

这项对法国殖民地瓜德罗普和法国南部葡萄酒行业(朗格多克)制糖业劳动动态的比较研究，考察了第三共和国时期法国政府使工会合法化为法国农村和法国殖民地的个人提供了一种应对19世纪末世界经济全球化带来的经济压力的方法。通过仔细分析包括工会请愿书在内的主要文件，调查人员将调查成立工会以及加入工会的工人与国家之间的谈判在多大程度上在农村工人中发展法国国家认同感方面发挥了关键作用。最终，调查人员将质疑工会化在法国大都市和法国殖民地是否起到了类似的作用。这项调查最终将挑战社会科学中被广泛接受的信念，即工会和工会与19世纪国家认同和民族主义的形成背道而驰。

This comparative study of labor dynamics in the sugar industry in the French colony of Guadeloupe and in the wine industry of southern France (Languedoc) examines the ways that the legalization of work unions by the French state during the Third Republic offered individuals in rural France and in the French colonies a way to combat economic pressures engendered by the globalization of the world economy at the end of the 19th century. Through a careful analysis of primary documents, including union petitions, the investigators will investigate the extent to which unionization and the negotiation between unionized workers and the state played a key role in the development of a French national identity among rural workers. Ultimately, the investigators will question whether unionization served analogous roles in the French metropole and in the French colonies. The investigation ultimately will challenge the widely accepted belief in the social sciences that labor and labor unions were antithetical to the formation of national identity and nationalism in the 19th century.