Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe
Published on 29. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-108-73908-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first comparative and comprehensive account of occupational training before the Industrial Revolution. Apprenticeship was a critical part of human capital formation, and, because of this, it has a central role to play in understanding economic growth in the past. At the same time, it was a key stage in the lives of many people, whose access to skills and experience of learning were shaped by the guilds that trained them. The local and national studies contained in this volume bring together the latest research into how skills training worked across Europe in an era before the emergence of national school systems. These essays, written to a common agenda and drawing on major new datasets, systematically outline the features of what amounted to a European-wide system of skills education, and provide essential insights into a key institution of economic and social history.
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'A very interesting work, which will be devoured by all who have an interest in early modern history.' Translated from AktiefMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 30 Tables, black and white; 6 Maps; 1 Halftones, black and white; 17 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
488 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-73908-5 (9781108739085)
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Maarten Prak | Patrick Wallis
Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe
Book
11/2019
Cambridge University Press
€129.80
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Content
Introduction: apprenticeship in early modern Europe Maarten Prak and Patrick Wallis; 1. The economics of apprenticeship Joel Mokyr; 2. Apprenticeship in early modern Madrid Victoria Lopez Barahona and Jose Nieto Sanchez; 3. A large 'umbrella': patterns of apprenticeship in eighteenth-century Turin Beatrice Zucca Micheletto; 4. Apprenticeship in early modern Venice Anna Bellavitis, Riccardo Cella and Giovanni Colavizza; 5. Actors and practices of German apprenticeship, fifteenth-nineteenth centuries Georg Stoeger and Reinhold Reith; 6. Rural artisans' apprenticeship practices in early modern Finland (1700-1850) Merja Uotila; 7. Apprenticeships with and without guilds: the Northern Netherlands Ruben Schalk; 8. Apprenticeship in the Southern Netherlands, c.1400-c.1800 Bert De Munck, Raoul De Kerf and Annelies De Bie; 9. Apprenticeship in England Patrick Wallis; 10. Surviving the end of the guilds: apprenticeship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France Clare Crowston and Claire Lemercier; Conclusion: European apprenticeship Maarten Prak and Patrick Wallis.