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[fre] Résumé Vers 1880, l'industrie du caoutchouc présente des caractères typiques des industries françaises de la première industrialisation : elle réalise dans des structures peu concentrées une production diversifiée largement tournée vers les articles de mode destinés à l'exportation. Le développement de ses fabrications de pneumatiques automobiles conduit à une modernisation précoce de ses structures de production. Après 1900, l'essor de ce nouvel objet technique s'effectue dans le cadre de firmes qui deviennent rapidement de grandes entreprises modernes. Elles s'orientent dans l'entre-deux-guerres vers d'autres articles de caoutchouc. Dès les années trente, une poignée d'entre elles, composée d'entreprises proprement nationales et de filiales de grandes firmes étrangères, contrôle en effet les trois quarts de la production totale du secteur. Avec le pneumatique, la logique du marché, qui prévaut pour expliquer les structures de l'activité en 1880, cède la place au processus de transformation technique de la production et au mécanisme du développement de la grande entreprise moderne. [eng] Abstract In 1880, the rubber industry was a classic illustration of the French industry in the first wave of industrialisation : a wide range of fashion accessories manufactured largely for export, within a multitude of highly dispersed structures. The development of the car tyre, a revolutionary technological product, lead to the early modernisation of production facilities. After 1900, the rapid advance of the tyre drew in it's quake those firms destined to become the first large modern companies. Between the two wars, output was extended to other rubber products. As early as the thirties, a mere handful of these firms, both domestic and foreign, controlled three quarters of the total output of the sector. The market-orientated structures of the eighteen eighties were thus upturned, making way for the process of technical transformation and the development of the large modern firm.
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Lionel Dumond, 1998.
"Un cas de modernisation industrielle précoce : l'industrie française du caoutchouc (1880-1970),"
Histoire, économie & société, Programme National Persée, vol. 17(1), pages 83-100.
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RePEc:prs:hiseco:hes_0752-5702_1998_num_17_1_1975
DOI: 10.3406/hes.1998.1975
Note: DOI:10.3406/hes.1998.1975
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