Two instances of what we statisticians call the secondary sector: the factory site. A factory is a place of work created in one place for a while undefined but preferably relatively long. A site is only temporary - after it ends, it ceases to be site and another site will open probably aileurs. In a plant, different parts of the production process are distributed in space, the foundry, painting, fitting ... On a construction site, the "trades" will follow in the same place, preferably in the right order - laborer, bricklayer, carpenter, roofer, plasterer, etc.. From a factory produced objects out there, then it must leave the shipyard to deliver its purpose ...
short, different title, construction and factory are not in opposition, but in duality - two different methods of organizing human labor. My presentation this afternoon seminar Master was about what happens when it's both a factory under construction.
Developments in the foundry of Ruelle, 1786-1826, according to an article in the Revue Maritime et Coloniale , March 1870
I'm not going to redo all the speech - a little too long, as usual, and largely improvised anyway - but that's the general idea. From 1786 to 1806, then again in the 1820s (but it comes out of my topic), the cannon foundry located at the Navy Lane (Charente) undergoes a series of major redesign, with new buildings, destruction of others, a comprehensive redevelopment of the course River, etc.. - Forging cannon built in 1753 in a former paper mill turns into an establishment of a new type: a large smelter. But
During construction, the sale continues : work began in 1788 but then shelved until the outbreak of war in 1792, after that, the resume work hard just because we need guns for war, so there is no question of interrupting production. Therefore coexist in the same space and plant starts - each with their workers, their materials, their direction. All these beautiful people are walking on foot on occasion: "Entrepreneur of the melting of guns took to the casting of the sand for mortar for masonry of the new oven," says contractor work.
Result: a case interesting duality factory / building site; and the origin of three tonnes of highly detailed source on the history of the foundry. The foot, when the subject is that we propose to treat for his memory M2.
PS: Nathalie Montel's book on the Suez Canal (I will discuss one of these days) is particularly inspiring about the notion of site as a specific mode of organization of work - and therefore subject to history of technology . The intro especially is like damn everything and helped me to conceptualize things a little.
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