Du corps au métier : la corporation des tailleurs à Turin entre le XVIIe et le XVIIIe siècle

Front Corps to Trade: the Corporation of Turin Tailors from the 16th to the 18th Century This article raises the question of the contexts in which Ancient Regime corporations should be analyzed. In order to understand the characteristics and evolution of the corporation of Turin tailors in the 17th and 18th centuries, a multi-levelled analysis was necessary including the investigation of family behavior, the prosopography of elites, the geography of social associations in urban space, and relationships between merchants and artisans. The corporation, bringing merchants and artisans together, was deliberately created with the aim of forwarding these groups' economic and above all political interests. The study of corporations concerns not only the economics but also the history of social associations and of the configuration of urban power.Cerutti Simona. Du corps au métier : la corporation des tailleurs à Turin entre le XVIIe et le XVIIIe siècle. In: Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations. 43ᵉ année, N. 2, 1988. pp. 323-352