French Demographic Maps

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I've been looking forward to doing these for a while. Sad, aren't I? Anyways, the first one:



For a full description (and a bigger map) go the Gallery

There are, of course, more s/p catagories than those four, it's just that they aren't very fun to make maps of at department level. Constituency is, as you will soon see, different...

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Generally the pattern I'd expected, although that one department in the Pyrenees, I'd also expected there to be more manual workers in parts of the south west (for places around Toulouse etc.

Toulouse is the one stick-out Pyrenées département.

Crazy, I had assumed Toulouse was a major manufacturing area, but I'm not sure what that was ever based on..

Airbus?

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Indeed. Apparently all the Airbus workers, no matter how grimy their job is, are too skilled to count as "ouvriers" for the French census.

"Ouvriers" is made up of the following subgroups: Skilled machine operators and assemblers, Skilled craft workers, Drivers, Skilled manual works in handling - warehousing and transportation, Unskilled machine operators and assemblers, Unskilled craft workers and Farm workers.

The Intemediate-grade occupations catagory includes (amongst other things) Foremen & Supervisors and Technical Staff. Engineers and people in "scientific occupations" are in Managers/Professionals catagory.

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The way the census counted unemployment was different from how it's normally worked out IIRC.
Can't entirely remember how though.

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One Year Later...



This is Nord-Pas de Calais and Picardy.

Bigger version in gallery. See first map in thread for keys and descriptions (though I added an extra, higher, level for Ouvriers).

More soon!

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More housing maps!

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More housing maps!

Any region in particular?

Ones with big cities would generally be more interesting

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Oh, I think we all care. Amazing stuff; diolch.

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I don't think "individually exploited" is English. We're talking of farms worked by a single person (or maybe nuclear family) without any employees, I assume.

I think the word looked for is smallholding.

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The great Fernand Braudel was a bit of a magpie when it came to maps, and had a charming habit that involved scattering ones by other people that seemed vaguely relevant to his arguments throughout his books. This set (taken from his last work) seems especially appropriate for this thread. It's to do with family structure and was accompanied by a note that the pattern fitted 'in general terms' certain other major geographical/political divisions in France. Braudel actually preferred a three-part model of family types to the simple extended/nuclear one, but, anyway...



A - Farmers
B - Rural Households
C - Urban Households