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Soup and Supervision: the Metropolitan Watch and Clock Making Trade 1797–1817 1
Author(s) -
SUTTON PAUL
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.1996.tb00189.x
Subject(s) - transformative learning , metropolitan area , power (physics) , adventure , government (linguistics) , order (exchange) , sociology , maturity (psychological) , period (music) , political science , public administration , economics , law , geography , history , art history , aesthetics , art , finance , philosophy , pedagogy , linguistics , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
In this paper Foucaultian theory is deployed to elucidate the significance of philanthropy as a channel of power through which artisanal culture was transformed. It is my contention that in the period 1797–1817 the transformative effects of war, government taxation policy and ‘trade adventurers’ upon London's artisanal culture were reinforced by the discourse and practice of philanthropy. In order to illustrate the transformative power effects of philanthropy two significant moments in the historical sociology of metropolitan artisanal culture are examined; the 1797 and 1817 crises in the clock and watch trade.