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