Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400–1800
Edited by S. R. Epstein,
London School
of Economics and Political Science, and M. Prak, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Cambridge University Press, 2008
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521887175
Contents
Introduction: guilds, innovation, and the European economy,
1400–1800 S. R. Epstein and Maarten Prak; 1. Craft guilds, the theory of
the firm, and early modern proto-industry Ulrich Pfister; 2. Craft guilds,
apprenticeship and technological change in preindustrial Europe S. R. Epstein;
3. Subcontracting in guild-based export trades, thirteenth-eighteenth centuries
Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly; 4. The circulation of skilled labour in late
medieval and early modern Central Europe Reinhold Reith; 5. Painters, guilds
and the art market during the Dutch Golden Age Maarten Prak; 6. Craft guilds
and technological change: the engine loom in the European silk ribbon industry
in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Ulrich Pfister; 7. Guilds,
technology and economic change in early modern Venice Francesca Trivellato; 8. Inventing
in a world of guilds: silk fabrics in eighteenth-century Lyon Liliane Perez; 9.
‘Not to hurt of trade’: guilds and innovation in horology and
precision instrument-making Anthony
Turner; 10. Reaching beyond the city wall: London guilds and national regulation,
1500-1700 Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick Wallis; 11. Guilds in decline? London livery companies
and the rise of a liberal economy, 1600–1800 Michael Berlin.
Contributors
S.
R. Epstein, Maarten Prak, Ulrich Pfister, Catharina Lis, Hugo Soly, Reinhold
Reith, Francesca Trivellato, Liliane Perez, Anthony Turner, Ian
Anders Gadd, Patrick Wallis, Michael
Berlin
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