| Titre | A l'ombre des usines, comme si de rien n'était... Industrialisation et maintien d'une communauté paysanne en Lorraine | |
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| Auteur | Geneviève Delbos | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 76, 1979 | |
| Page | 83-96 | |
| Résumé anglais |
In the Shade of the Factories, as if nothing had Happened. . . Industrialization and the Maintaining of a Peasant Community in Lorraine.
This paper deals with the first part of a wider study of five French villages concerning the behaviour of those who leave agriculture.
Grand-Failly is notable in demonstrating an absence of rural depopulation and mobility because of its proximity to the steel centre at Longwy. In other circumstances a village like G. F. would have undergone depopulation as a consequence of modernization in agriculture after World War II. The fact that the families of those who become steel workers can remain in the village contributes to the survival of the peasant community.
A paradox lies in the fact that G. F. shows the survival of peasant values and behaviour although three quarters of the villagers have left agriculture, since those who stick to agriculture represent to all the "spirit" of the community, it seems that no further hazards to the agricultural life are likely to modify the fate of this village community as a sociological unit.
Within the French rural world, G. F. thus stands as an example of what Lévi-Strauss labelled "the archaic illusion". It appears that the ethnographers who saw in G. F. above all a peasant community, have fallen victims to such an illusion. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1979_num_76_1_2534 |
