Download or read book Work, Regulation, and Identity in Provincial France written by D. Heimmermann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy.