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To create, order and manage disorder. The control of the agricultural work process: a proposal concerning its structuring.
The aim of this paper is to show how the control over peasant work - usually referred to as «rent» in institutional terms - could eventually permeate the very organisation of production, and thus, increasingly orient it towards a selection of plants most amenable to being stocked, transformed and commercialized. All this implied an increasingly active and rigorous discipline of peasant work. As a result, the erosive process to which peasant capacity for self-management was submitted would finally end up in a definitive loss of peasant autonomy.

Intro -- THE MAKING OF FEUDAL AGRICULTURES? -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- L'EVOLUTION DES TECHNIQUES -- HISTOIRE ET TECHNIQUES: L'OUTIL AGRICOLE DANS LA PERIODE DU HAUT MOYEN-AGE (Ve-Xe S.) -- LES TECHNIQUES DE TRACTION ANIMALE DE L'ANTIQUITÉ AU MOYEN AGE* -- LES CÉRÉALES DU BAS-EMPIRE AU MOYEN AGE -- FARMING IN MEDITERRANEAN FRANCE AND RURAL SETTLEMENT IN THE LATE ROMAN AND EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIODS -- THE MISSING WATER-MILL: A QUESTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL DIFFUSION IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES* -- INDEX.