Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Guilds, Innovation, and the European Economy, 1400–1800
- 1 Craft Guilds, the Theory of the Firm, and Early Modern Proto-industry
- 2 Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Pre-industrial Europe
- 3 Subcontracting in Guild-based Export Trades, Thirteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
- 4 Circulation of Skilled Labour in Late Medieval and Early Modern Central Europe
- 5 Painters, Guilds, and the Art Market during the Dutch Golden Age
- 6 Craft Guilds and Technological Change: The Engine Loom in the European Silk Ribbon Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 7 Guilds, Technology, and Economic Change in Early Modern Venice
- 8 Inventing in a World of Guilds: Silk Fabrics in Eighteenth-century Lyon
- 9 ‘Not to Hurt of Trade’: Guilds and Innovation in Horology and Precision Instrument Making
- 10 Reaching beyond the City Wall: London Guilds and National Regulation, 1500–1700
- 11 Guilds in Decline? London Livery Companies and the Rise of a Liberal Economy, 1600–1800
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 June 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Guilds, Innovation, and the European Economy, 1400–1800
- 1 Craft Guilds, the Theory of the Firm, and Early Modern Proto-industry
- 2 Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Pre-industrial Europe
- 3 Subcontracting in Guild-based Export Trades, Thirteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
- 4 Circulation of Skilled Labour in Late Medieval and Early Modern Central Europe
- 5 Painters, Guilds, and the Art Market during the Dutch Golden Age
- 6 Craft Guilds and Technological Change: The Engine Loom in the European Silk Ribbon Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 7 Guilds, Technology, and Economic Change in Early Modern Venice
- 8 Inventing in a World of Guilds: Silk Fabrics in Eighteenth-century Lyon
- 9 ‘Not to Hurt of Trade’: Guilds and Innovation in Horology and Precision Instrument Making
- 10 Reaching beyond the City Wall: London Guilds and National Regulation, 1500–1700
- 11 Guilds in Decline? London Livery Companies and the Rise of a Liberal Economy, 1600–1800
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008