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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 237
- Publication Date
- 2012-10-19
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- France
- ISBN
- 9780230304314
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
ISBN-10
0230304311
ISBN-13
9780230304314
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117376098
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
X, 237 Pages
Publication Name
Bureaucrats and Bourgeois Society : Office Politics and Individual Credit, France, 1789-1848
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Public Affairs & Administration, Europe / France, General, Modern / General, Europe / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Series
War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Item Length
10.8 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-024034
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
302.3/5094409034
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction: 20,000 Fools: Inventing the 'Bureaucrat' PART I: OFFICE POLITICS A Revolution in Administration: The Theory and Practice of Government During the French Revolution Revolutionary Time and Space: The Anxieties of Administrative 'Transparency' Telling Tales: Collaboration, Career-making, and the Contest for Credit PART II: BUREAUCRATS IN BOURGEOIS SOCIETY Civil Servant, Civil Society: The Accumulation of 'Honour' in Bourgeois Society Surrogate Fathers, Suitable Sons: Manufacturing 'Paternity' and Honourable Inheritance The Social Politics of Bureaucracy: The 'Bureaucrat' as 'Bourgeois Type' Coda & Conclusion: The Failure of 1848: Bourgeois Social Capital at the Crossroads Note on Method and Sources and Select Bibliography Endnotes Index
Synopsis
How did the French Revolution change ordinary lives? Bureaucrats and Bourgeois Society asks this question in relation to office clerks working in Parisian administrations. Under new masters, these clerks faced radical changes to work practices as reforming politicians looked to implement new 'administrative science'. Many also faced the loss of family inheritances, as positions no longer passed down from father to son. Clerks were now expected to make their career as individuals. In practice, this meant increased job insecurity. Administrators lived under the threat of regular cuts in pay and of personnel. In this situation, some believed that the way to get ahead was by playing office politics. In the early nineteenth century, however, clerks mitigated their situation by modifying occupational practices. Inside the offices, they settled new modes of judging individual merit. Outside, they accumulated other forms of individual credit, in the process helping to define nineteenth-century bourgeois social capital, ideals of emulation, honor, and masculinity. Job insecurity, however, continued to set 'bureaucrats' apart from the bourgeoisie and their social identity came under question during the July Monarchy and 1848 Revolution., Between 1789 and 1848, clerks modified their occupational practices, responding to political scrutiny and state-administration reforms. Ralph Kingston examines the lives and influence of bureaucrats inside and outside the office as they helped define nineteenth-century bourgeois social capital, ideals of emulation, honour, and masculinity.
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