Labor before the Industrial Revolution : work, technology and their ecologies in an age of early capitalism / edited by Thomas Max Safley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Safley, Thomas Max, editor.

Series:

Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 55.

Perspectives in economic and social history ; 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Europe--History.

Labor.

Working class--Europe--History.

Working class.

History.

Europe.

Economic history--1600-1750.

Economic history.

Economic history--16th century.

Economic history--15th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 262 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage with labor at all. This collection of essays strives to correct this oversight and to reintroduce labor into the great debates about capitalist development and economic growth before the Industrial Revolution. By attending to the effects of specific regulatory, technological, social and physical environments on producers and production in a set of specific industries, these essays use an "ecological" approach that demonstrates how productivity, knowledge and regime changed between 1400 and 1800. This book will be of interest to researchers in history, especially labor history, and European economic development."-- Provided by Publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780815369950

0815369956

OCLC:

1080912151