The republic of skill : artisan mobility, innovation, and the circulation of knowledge in premodern Europe / edited by David Garrioch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garrioch, David, editor.

Series:

Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy ; 9.

Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skilled labor.

Labor mobility--European Union countries.

Labor mobility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

Mobile artisans, male and female, were responsible for many innovations and new consumer products. This book asks why, and shows the importance of collective traditions of migration, of the experience of mobility, and of the encounter with new places.

Artisans travelled all over Europe in the pre-modern period, and they were responsible for many technical innovations and new consumer products. This volume moves away from the model of knowledge ‘transfer’ and, drawing on new understandings of artisan work, considers the links between artisan creativity and mobility. Through case studies of different industries, it emphasizes traditions of migration, the experience of moving, and the stimulus provided by new economic and work environments. For both male and female artisans, the weight of these factors varied from one trade to another, and from place to place.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Artisan Mobility and Innovation in Pre-industrial Europe

David Garrioch

2 Shared Skills and Technologies of Community Formation

Artisanal Epistemologies, Secrecy and Governmentality in Long-term Context

Bert De Munck

3 Artisan Mobility and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Glass Industry in Early Modern Europe

Corine Maitte

4 Seducing Europe

Swiss Sugar-bakers on the Move

Margrit Schulte Beerbühl

5 Circulation of Artisans and Techniques in Construction Sites in Early Modern Europe

Nicoletta Rolla

6 Foreign Furniture-makers and Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Paris

7 Making and Marketing Porcelain in Eighteenth-century London

Matthew Martin

8 The Eckhardt Family

Inventors on the Move in the Dutch Republic and England, c.1760–1820

Karel Davids

9 A Difficult Matching

Female Artisans, Technical Knowledge and Inventions in Early Modern Savoy-piedmont

Beatrice Zucca Micheletto

10 Made in France?

British Women Workers in the Eighteenth-century Paris Fashion Trades

Simon Macdonald

11 Innovation, Mobility and Knowledge Transfer in Madrid, 1680–1820

José Antolín Nieto Sánchez

12 Painters on the Move in Seventeenth-century Europe

Maarten Prak and Sander Karst

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Garrioch, David The Republic of Skill

ISBN:

90-04-51325-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004513259 DOI