L'entreprise est-elle une institution ? Le cas du Familistère de Guise

Michel Lallement

Revue française de socio-Economie, 2008, vol. n° 1, issue 1, 67-87

Abstract: Under the influence of Fourier?s philosophy, the French manufacturer J.B.A. Godin set up a social community of workers in the middle of the XIXth Century. Within the ?Familistère?, Godin managed a factory, accommodations for workers, a school, shops, a theater, aso. This paper describes this innovative experimentation that run until the death of Godin in 1888. The case of the ?Familistère? is not only interesting per se. It is also a relevant way to sustain the debate on the status of the firm in the field of the current economic sociology. In such a perspective, the author uses a definition of the institution partially indebted to the durkheimian sociology. He suggests that, even in the case of paternalistic organizations like the ?Familistère?, firm can never be regarded as a ?total institution?.

Date: 2008
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