Pouvoir et patrimoine au travers des appareils d'encadrement de deux départements : le Calvados et la Corrèze

Abstract

Power and Patrimony: Social Control Devices in two Départements, the Calvados and the Corrèze. The 5th Republic is reinforcing its means of organizing and containing agricultural producers. These social devices take specific forms in the different French provinces. The main resources in the Département of the Calvados, in Normandy, are breeding and cereal growing; tenant farming largely predominates. Here the social devices used by landowners have remained unified. Initially devised by the cereal producers, they have also, since 1960, intensified the production of milk and meat. Hence the changes that are affecting the system of production in these areas. In the Département of the Corrèze, in Central France, the social structures set up to organize and contain the peasantry have steadily intensified the political and agricultural trade-union bipolarity within this area of mixed farming and breeding. These structures are ill-adapted to an area which has not kept up with the various changes in French agriculture, and diversified strategies must therefore be adopted. that are affecting the system of production in these areas. In the Département of the Corrèze, in Central France, the social structures set up to organize and contain the peasantry have steadily intensified the political and agricultural trade-union bipolarity within this area of mixed farming and breeding. These structures are ill-adapted to an area which has not kept up with the various changes in French agriculture, and diversified strategies must therefore be adopted.