Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800 / edited by S.R. Epstein, Maarten Prak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Stephan R., 1960-2007, author.

Contributor:

Prak, Maarten Roy, 1955- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guilds--Europe--History.

Guilds.

Industrialization--Europe--History.

Industrialization.

Europe--Commerce--History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Guilds, Innovation & the European Economy, 1400-1800

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For a long time guilds have been condemned as a major obstacle to economic progress in the pre-industrial era. This re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy challenges that view by taking into account fresh research on innovation, technological change and entrepreneurship. 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. Much of this innovation was fostered by the craft guilds that formed the backbone of industrial production before the rise of the steam engine. The book traces the manifold ways in which guilds in a variety of industries in Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain helped to create an institutional environment conducive to technological and marketing innovations.

Contents:

Introduction : Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800 / S.R. Epstein and Maarten Prak

Craft guilds, the theory of the firm, and early modern proto-industry / Ulrich Pfister

Craft guilds, apprenticeship and technological change in pre-industrial Europe / S.R. Epstein

Subcontracting in guild-based export trades, thirteenth-eighteenth centuries / Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly

Circulation of skilled labour in late medieval and early modern Central Europe / Reinhold Reith

Painters, guilds and the art market during the Dutch Golden Age / Maarten Prak

Craft guilds and technological change : the engine loom in the European silk ribbon industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ulrich Pfister

Guilds, technology and economic change in early modern Venice / Francesca Trivellato

Inventing in a world of guilds : silk fabrics in eighteenth-century Lyon / Liliane Hilaire-Pérez

'Not to hurt of trade' : guilds and innovation in horology and precision instrument making / Anthony Turner

Reaching beyond the city wall : London guilds and national regulation, 1500-1700 / Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick Wallis

Guilds in decline? London livery companies and the rise of a liberal economy, 1600-1800 / Michael Berlin.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-18696-X

1-281-25515-7

9786611255152

0-511-38745-8

0-511-49673-7

0-511-38644-3

0-511-38461-0

0-511-38278-2

0-511-38844-6

OCLC:

437204564