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Analyses of "paternalism" often highlight a personalized type of domination between employers & their workers. This paper studies employers outside of their firms & uses the instruments of political anthropology (matrimonial strategies & kinship relations in respect of the composition of successive municipal councils) to analyze the way the nineteenth- & twentieth-century industrial bourgeoisie became established in villages. It reveals that personalized domination really occurred only in the inter-war years, when a relative familiarity was instigated between the employer-mayor established among the region's industrial bourgeoisie & a fraction of the workers living in the village. Ahead of this period came the progressive embedding of economic & political power, that peaked when the employer-class held sway over the village, directing the local council & controlling the competing social groups. Post-war, personalized domination by employers had had its day & survived only in strands amid the web of village power politics. Adapted from the source document.