Les cités ouvrières d'origine minière voient le jour en Algérie dans la seconde moitie du XIXe siècle. Elles sont le fait d'une industrie extractive de fer mise au point par la colonisation pour soutenir le développement industriel sidérurgique en France. Grâce au minerai pur Algérien, Mokta-el-Hadid devient une puissante compagnie minière qui n'hésite pas à réorganiser le marché du fer en France. Le patronat français qui importe en Algérie ses moyens de production, importe par la même occasion ses architectures et ses modes d'habiter. Ce travail de thèse propose une réflexion approfondie sur l'histoire de l'industrie minière coloniale en Algérie et son mode d'établissement urbain. Il évoque les conditions pratiques et idéologiques des modalités d'action du patronat colonial sur les groupes sociaux et leur espace de vie. Les cités ouvrières, construites en Algérie entre 1870 et 1940, répondent à des considérations à la fois économiques, structurées par une morale patronale et coloniales, marquées par un établissement pérenne d'une population ouvrière européenne en Algérie. L'analyse de l'espace urbain de la cité minière de Béni-Saf, dans le nord-ouest algérien, montre une intéressante richesse de typologie de bâti. Sa morphologie urbaine est largement marquée par les articulations entre la reproduction de l'organisation du travail dans la mine, le développement des forces ouvrières et la prégnance de l'idéologie colonialiste. L'urbanisation accélérée de l'ère post-coloniale marque encore plus radicalement cette morphologie par la volumétrie des nouvelles constructions, le mode de vie social et la politique non conservatrice du patrimoine bâti. Il convient donc de s'interroger sur les pratiques et la représentation du patrimoine industriel colonial en Algérie. / Mining company towns emerged in Algeria in the second half of the nineteenth century. They were established by an extractive iron industry developed by colonization to support the development of steel industry in France. Thanks to the Algerian pure iron-ore, Mokta-el-Hadid became a powerful mining company, which did not hesitate to reorganize the iron market in France. French employers imported to Algeria their production means and at the same time their architectures and their ways of inhabiting. This thesis proposes a deep reflection on the history of the colonial mining industry in Algeria and its urban settlement modes. It evokes the ideological and practical conditions of the modes of action of colonial employers on social groups and their living space. The company towns built in Algeria between 1870 and 1940 responded to economic considerations framed by entrepreneurial and colonial morals, marked by the permanent establishment of a European working population in Algeria. Analysis of the urban space of the mining town of Beni-Saf, in northwest Algeria, shows a wealth interesting of constructive typologies. Its urban morphology is largely characterized by the articulation between the reproduction of the working mine organisation, the development of working forces and the pervasiveness of colonialist ideology. The rapid urbanization of the post-colonial time marks more radically this morphology by the volumetry of new buildings, the social lifestyle and the non-conservative policy of historical buildings. It is thus necessary to examine the practices and the representations of colonial industrial heritage in Algeria.

English abstract This dissertation thesis deals with an entrepreneur as an engaged social agent that wants to shape society, creating not only a successful business venture but also a societal vision. This research focused on the Czech example of Tomáš and Jan Antonín Baťa while utilizing case studies of American entrepreneurs Henry Ford and Milton Hershey. These business owners are examples of social agents that realized their entrepreneurial plans, while their enterprise also allowed them to create a desired societal vision. The goal of the dissertation thesis is to discover how the studied entrepreneurs tried to influence the community of their employees and their company towns. The examination will include the ways they tried to influence wider society, through areas such as politics, philanthropy, and support of education. The goal is to identify and evaluate their motivations, goals, and ideas they used to shape society. The intent of the thesis is to present engaged Czech entrepreneurs through comparison with their American counterparts. This thesis is focused on the first 40 years of the 20th century. It was a time that immediately followed the societal changes connected with industrialization, urbanization, and modernization. The studied entrepreneurs lived in an era of massive social changes,...

This thesis aims to contribute new knowledge to the debate on corporate urbanism. Generally, it seeks to identify the process and implications of globalization tendencies on the development of industrial and postindustrial cities while exploring the aspects that this specific production of space entails. Specifically it studies the case of the Baťa shoe company, whose model of an „ideal industrial town“, its production and export, has been one of the first examples of enforcement/implementation of corporate urbanism on a global scale. The 1930s model of the Indian enterprise city, Batanagar, is since 2006 being replaced by a new one: the model of a city-venture, in which the actual production of shoes is strictly separated from the new production of lifestyle. This model can today be found on the outskirts of large cities throughout the world, and especially in countries of the global south, where it clearly reflects the socio-economic transformation of the whole society, from a production driven, to a consumption driven society.