Big Business and Industrial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century France

Founded in 1855, the Parisian Gas Company (PGC) quickly developed into one of France''s greatest industrial enterprises, an exemplar of the new industrial capitalism that was beginning to transform the French economy. The PGC supplied at least half the coal gas consumed in France through the 1870s and became the city''s single largest employer of clerical and factory labor. Representing a new form...