Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800

Klappentext Re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy. Zusammenfassung A re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy. Leading economic historians argue that industry before the Industrial Revolution was much more innovative than previous studies have allowed for and explore the different products and production techniques that were launched and developed in this period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction: guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800 S. R. Epstein and Maarten Prak; 1. Craft guilds, the theory of the firm, and early modern proto-industry Ulrich Pfister; 2. Craft guilds, apprenticeship and technological change in pre-industrial Europe S. R. Epstein; 3. Subcontracting in guild-based export trades, thirteenth-eighteenth centuries Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly; 4. Circulation of skilled labour in late medieval and early modern Central Europe Reinhold Reith; 5. Painters, guilds and the art market during the Dutch Golden Age Maarten Prak; 6. Craft guilds and technological change: the engine loom in the European silk ribbon industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Ulrich Pfister; 7. Guilds, technology and economic change in early modern Venice Francesca Trivellato; 8. Inventing in a world of guilds: silk fabrics in eighteenth-century Lyon Liliane Perez; 9. 'Not to hurt of trade': guilds and innovation in horology and precision instrument making Anthony Turner; 10. Reaching beyond the city wall: London guilds and national regulation, 1500-1700 Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick Wallis; 11. Guilds in decline? London livery companies and the rise of a liberal economy, 1600-1800 Michael Berlin; Index.

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• Authors: S. R. Epstein, S. R. Prak Epstein, S.r. Prak Epstein, Maarten Prak
• Assisted by: S. R. Epstein (Editor), Maarten Prak (Editor), Prak Maarten (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521153911
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15391-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Labour Economics, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Economics of industrial organization