Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Epstein, Stephan R., 1960-2007
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Other Authors: Prak, Maarten Roy, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Table of 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-PĂ©rez
  • '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.