La Ciotat in the Age of Steam (1836-1916) : The Messageries Maritimes and the Making of an Industrial Maritime Society /

La Ciotat in the Age of Steam (1836-1916) : The Messageries Maritimes and the Making of an Industrial Maritime Society /

La Ciotat, a small port-town in the French Mediterranean, underwent a profound metamorphosis during the nineteenth century. Once a small maritime community, it was transformed into the technical base and shipbuilding centre of the Compagnie des Messageries maritimes , France's largest steam nav...

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Main Author: Vasilaki, Kalliopi (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Brill's Studies in Maritime History ; 19.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables and Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Economy
  • 1 The Pre-industrial French Mediterranean: the Case of La Ciotat and Its Maritime Transport System
  • 1 The Port of Marseille: a Dominant Port in the French Mediterranean 2 The Secondary Ports and Smaller Ports of Provence: Essential Components of the Transport System of the Region
  • 3 The Maritime Culture of La Ciotat during the Sailing Era: an Overview
  • 4 The Decline of Provence's Pre-industrial Economy: the Case of La Ciotat
  • 2 The Advent of Steam in La Ciotat: the First Phase (1836-1851)
  • 1 Louis Benet and the Introduction of Industrial Shipbuilding Activity in the Port
  • 2 Factors for the Establishment of the Shipbuilding Industry in La Ciotat
  • 3 The Process of Adaptation: the Externalities of Industrial Growth
  • 4 The Maritime Economy of the Port in Transition: Shipbuilding Production
  • 5 The Novelty of the Business Venture of Louis Benet in the Mediterranean Basin
  • 6 The Decline of the Activities of Louis Benet
  • 3 La Ciotat's Transformation into a Maritime Industrial Centre
  • 1 The Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes in the Port of La Ciotat
  • 2 The Metamorphosis of the Port: the Formation of an Industrial Shipbuilding Complex in La Ciotat
  • 3 The Evolution of Shipbuilding Production in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Vertical Integration and State Subsidies
  • 4 The Decline of Production in the Shipyard and Workshops at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: the Final Period of Messageries Maritimes in La Ciotat
  • 5 Factors of Productivity in the Shipbuilding Centre of La Ciotat
  • 6 The Port of La Ciotat during the Industrial Era and Its Integration into a New Industrial Maritime District in Provence
  • Part 2 Labour
  • 4 The Shipyard and Workshops of the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes and Its Workforce
  • 1 The Company in Search of Labour: the Implementation of Industrial Paternalism
  • 2 Employment Strategies to Increase and Retain the Labour Force in La Ciotat: Working Housing and Social Policies
  • 3 Employment Patterns in the Shipyard
  • 5 From Deck to Engine: Local Seafarers in Transition
  • 1 The Administrative Division of the Coastline of France: the Inscription Maritime
  • 2 Studying the Seafarers of La Ciotat: the matricules de gens de mer in the Inscription Maritime
  • 3 The Inscrits Maritimes in La Ciotat in Transition: the Sailors
  • 4 The Inscrits Maritimes of La Ciotat: the Captains
  • 5 The Professional Transformation of La Ciotat's Seafarers
  • Part 3 The Society
  • 6 The Town in Transition: the Demographic Restructuring of La Ciotat (1831-1911)
  • 1 Population Growth and Urban Expansion in La Ciotat
  • 2 Immigration as a Primary Factor of Demographic Change
  • 3 The Population Composition: Demographic Dynamics into Transition
  • 4 The Control of the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes into the Demographic Behaviours in La Ciotat
  • 7 Towards a New Maritime Society: the Main Traits of Occupational Structure in La Ciotat
  • 1 The Town's Male Occupational Structure towards Industrialisation: a General Overview
  • 2 A Society Connected to the Sea: the Evolution of Seafaring Labour and Fishing
  • 3 Towards a New Working-Class Society
  • 4 The Changing Characteristics of Female Labour in the Town
  • 5 The Impact of Changing Occupational Structure on the Society of the Town
  • 8 A New Opening to the World: Facets of a New Everyday Life in La Ciotat
  • 1 Italian Immigration and Social Integration
  • 2 The Multifaceted Sociocultural Impact of Seafarers
  • 3 The Phenomenon of Prostitution in La Ciotat
  • 4 The Transformative Power of Industrial Growth: La Ciotat's Rise to Global Prominence
  • 9 The Labour Protests of Twentieth-Century La Ciotat: a Closing Chapter of Transition
  • 1 The Slow Rise of Syndicalism in the Town
  • 2 Social Unrest and Strikes at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: the End of a Long Cycle
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1: Ships Constructed in La Ciotat in the Period 1832 to 1850
  • Appendix 2: Studying the Occupational Structure of La Ciotat: a Methodological Note
  • Archival Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index.