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![]() Il s’agit de femmes migrantes vivant au sein d’une communauté de pêcheurs installée dans la périphérie rurale de la ville de Pointe-Noire. L’article porte sur les femmes entrepreneures dans le secteur informel de la pêche côtière au Congo-Brazzaville. The relations of subordination seem to prevail, although less intense than before. Little evidence has however come from the paper to suggest an effective emancipation and social autonomy on the side of the entrepreneurial woman. In this regard, the household can be perceived as safety net and migration is indeed a strategy through which assets are accumulated in the host society. The paper also demonstrates how inter-spouses partnering generate cohesion within the household and provides a mechanism for pooling income and other resources and for sharing business risks. The observed patterns in enterprising amply support the view that vulnerable households are capable of mobilising additional labour – in this case women’s labour – in order to diversify their sources of income. ![]() This interdependency of livelihoods reflects a reconstruction of gender-relations within the household which links matrimony to migration as an asset-accumulation strategy. In return, they re-invest part of the proceeds in their husbands’ fishing business. Women rely on the fish supplied by male migrants including their husbands to run their fish smoking activities. It shows the extent to which these women have achieved an insertion into a market niche, fish smoking, which builds on the livelihoods of co-ethnic migrant fishermen. Maurice Daumas (1910-1984) was a founder, but whose name is now forgotten.This paper examines the entrepreneurial activities of female migrants in the informal artisanal fishing sector along the coastal line of Congo-Brazzaville. He was a curator at the Conservatoire national des Arts & Métiers (Paris), then holder of the first Chair in the history of techniques, and he directed the monumental Histoire générale des techniques. It was him who brought industrial heritage into the French academic field by founding the journal L’Archéologie industrielle en France and by publishing in 1980 a book with the same title. In this book, Daumas evokes in particular the glorious timesof industrial history in the Saint-Étienne region. Following the recent discovery of the archives of the national survey that he conducted over several years to document his book, I propose to examine the way in which he approached the industrial heritage of Saint-Étienne, the first French industrial city for a long time, by updating the methodology he used and the local networks on which it relied. In sum, this contribution is about the birth of a field of research in France and in Europe: industrial archeology. Since the end of the 19 th century, was disappearing and giving way to Corps de l’article PreambleĮuropean societies underwent a significant cultural shock when their production andĮconomic system found itself in a spiral of deindustrialization: a shock not only social,Įconomic and psychological but urban as well. Sites marked by devastation, emptied of their activities, reduced to ruins. Temptation to start over at zero (when possible) seemed the best solution to rejoining the Model meant defeat, and we find it hard to commemorate defeats. Those lands which were “victims” of deindustrialization Modern age, one which cared little for remembering. ![]() Were doomed to escheatment or disappearance in both material and intangible terms, like aīad memory. Their future would be forgotten or rejected.
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