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Solidarity and Autonomy: Female Mutual Aid Societies in Grenoble (1840s-1914s)

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In the mid-nineteenth century, the French government and a large part of elite encouraged popular classes to join together and create mutual aid societies. This liberal recommendation resulted from the observation of industry's growth and pauperism, but also demographic push in cities. Throughout the century, the city of Grenoble is one of the main centres of mutualism in France. In 1858, the municipal administration counted 18 male and 19 female friendly societies. Grenoble was a great open-cast glove-making workshop which employed several thousand seamstresses. These women needed therefore a support for sickness, maternity and when their bodies wore out. Using various archives like associations bylaws, minutes of board meetings and general assemblies, accounting registers, member’s address repertories, this paper proposes to measure the medical, social and economic efficiency of female mutual aid societies. Moreover, the case of Grenoble suggests that friendly societies was space not only of sociability, but also space where women could fight male domination.
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halshs-04094826, version 1 (11-05-2023)

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Julien Caranton. Solidarity and Autonomy: Female Mutual Aid Societies in Grenoble (1840s-1914s). European Social Science History Conference, Apr 2023, Goteborg, Sweden. ⟨halshs-04094826⟩
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