Thomas Max Safley - Labor Before the Industrial Revolution: Work, Technology and their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism

Labor Before the Industrial Revolution

One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage with labor at all. This collection of essays strives to correct this oversight and to reintroduce labor into the great debates about capitalist development and economic growth before the Industrial Revolution. By attending to the effects of specific regulatory, technological, social and physical environments on producers and production in a set of specific industries, these essays use an ecological approach that demonstrates how productivity, knowledge and regime changed between 1400 and 1800.

This book will be of interest to researchers in history, especially labor history, and European economic development.

Thomas Max Safley is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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Contents

THOMAS MAX SAFLEY AND LEONARD N. ROSENBAND

LEONARD N. ROSENBAND

ANDREA CARACAUSI

JELLE VERSIEREN AND BERT DE MUNCK

PHILIPPE MINARD

THIJS LAMBRECHT

vi Contents

SANDRINE VICTOR

ROSER SALICR I LLUCH

CORINE MAITTE

THOMAS MAX SAFLEY

WILLIAM J. ASHWORTH

viii Figures

William J. Ashworth is Reader in History, University of Liverpool (Great Britain). He is the author of Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, andConsumption in England, 16401845 (2003) and The Industrial Revolution:The State, Knowledge and Global Trade (2017), and his current research examines the manufacture of adulterated foods during the Industrial Revolution.

Andrea Caracausi is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Padua (Italy). He specializes in the social and economic history of Italy and the Mediterranean World, with particular focus on guilds, womens work, child labor and legal proceedings. He received a B.A. in History (University of Padua) and a Ph.D. in Economic and Social History (Bocconi University, Milan). Recent publications include: Information Asymmetries and Craft Guilds in Pre-modern Markets: Evidence from Italian Proto-industry, Economic History Review (2017); A Reassessment of the Role of Guild Courts in Disputes over Apprenticeship Contracts: A Case-Study from Early Modern Italy, Continuity and Change (2017);

Beaten Children and Womens Work in Early Modern Italy, Past &Present (2014).

Bert de Munck is Professor of History in the History Department at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), where he teaches Early Modern History,

Theory of Historical Knowledge and Heritage and Public History. He is a member of the Center for Urban History, Antwerp, and Director of the interdisciplinary Urban Studies Institute and the international research network, Urban Agency: The Historical Fabrication of the City as an Object of Study. His research concentrates on early modern cities, in particular craft guilds, civil society, poor relief and the repertoires of evaluation regarding skills and products. Relevant publication are Guilds, Labour and the UrbanBody Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 13001800

(2018), Disassembling the City: A Historical and an Epistemological View on the Agency of Cities, Journal of Urban History (2015), and Artisans, Products and Gifts: Rethinking the History of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe, Past & Present (2014).

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Thijs Lambrecht is Lecturer in Comparative Rural History at Ghent University (Belgium). His research interests include the organization of labor and welfare provisioning in rural societies during the pre-industrial period. His many publications include: Een grote hoeve in een klein dorp. Relaties van arbeid en pachtop het Vlaamse platteland tijdens de 18de eeuw (2002); Agrarian Change, Labour Organization and Welfare Entitlements in the North-Sea Area, c. 16501800

in: S. King and A. Winter (eds.), Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe15001930s: Comparative Perspectives (2013); The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective in: Jane Whittle (ed.), Servants in Rural Europe: 14001900 (2017).

Corine Maitte is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall e (France) and a member of the working group, Analyse Compar e des Pouvoirs EA 3350. She is a specialist on the economic and social history of modern Italy; the history of migration; the history of skills and corporations, especially among glass manufacturers in Italy, France and the Low Countries; wool manufacturing in Tuscany and Piedmont; and the history of working times. Her recent publications include