This article examines the removal of children from factories and their integration into the school system in the early nineteenth century, using decommodification as a conceptual framework. The Swiss canton of Aargau serves as a case study – a region where the textile industry flourished and a liberal government came to power after the July Revolution, subsequently enforcing compulsory education. Through a nuanced exploration of diverse sources, the article argues that decommodification was a deeply contentious process marked by conflicts between working-class families, factory owners, the state, and the church. Simultaneously, these conflicts unleashed dynamic forces that coded working-class childhood in terms of age and gender. It is this transformational power that underscores the interpretative potential of decommodification as a constructive process of Vergesellschaftung (sociation). Beyond simply freeing children from labour obligations, the prohibition of factory work reintegrated them intricately into the social fabric of the economy.

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工厂童工禁令重温：走向十九世纪初非商品化的社会史

本文以去商品化为概念框架，探讨了 19 世纪初将儿童从工厂中转移出来并融入学校系统的情况。瑞士阿尔高州就是一个案例研究——该地区纺织业蓬勃发展，七月革命后自由派政府上台，随后强制实行义务教育。通过对不同来源的细致入微的探索，文章认为去商品化是一个充满争议的过程，其特点是工人阶级家庭、工厂主、国家和教会之间的冲突。与此同时，这些冲突释放出动态力量，在年龄和性别方面对工人阶级的童年进行编码。正是这种变革力量强调了去商品化作为一个建设性过程的解释潜力。交通运输协会（社会）。除了简单地将儿童从劳动义务中解放出来之外，禁止工厂工作还使他们重新融入了经济的社会结构。