Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic - Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800

List of contents

Introduction 1. Communal Revolts and the Politicization of Labor 2. The Fabrication of the Urban Body Politic 3. The Political Economy of Freeman Status 4. Corporatism, Proletarianization and the Patriarchal Order 5. Equality, Solidarity and the Decline of Brotherhood Epilogue: Dis/Assembling the Workplace and the Agora

About the author

Bert De Munck is Professor at the History Department at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Summary

This book presents an integrated history of the guilds in the Southern Netherlands, connecting political history, the history of political thought, economic history, and labor history, while taking into account the cultural and religious context. It does so from a long-term perspective, in order to counter anachronistic and ahistorical views on the emergence of European modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Bert De Munck, Bert (University of Antwerp De Munck, Bert De Munck
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780815372028
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-7202-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, Europe, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, Social and cultural history, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history