The Beginnings of Capitalism in Central Europe.

• Author: Levitt, Cyril.
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated,, 2021.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 pages)

This book focuses on the beginnings of capitalism in Central Europe with emphasis on the German speaking areas from the 14thto the 17thcentury.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- About the Author and This Book -- Preface Krader in Context ( David Levine ) -- Reply to Krader in Context ( Cyril Levitt ) -- Translator's Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Foreword -- Part I -- Chapter One: The Beginnings of Modern Bourgeois Society in Central Europe -- Chapter Two: Theoretical Conceptions of the Transition from Feudalism to the Modern Era in the History of Central Europe -- 2.1. General Remarks -- 2.2. The Transition from Feudalism to Modern Bourgeois Society According to Karl Marx -- 2.3. Max Weber and the Spirit of Capitalism -- 2.4. Sombart, Kulischer, von Below, Strieder, Brentano, Janssen, Pareto, Braudel -- 2.5. Schumpeter -- 2.6. The Capitalist System and Modern Bourgeois Society -- 2.7. Social Form and Substance -- 2.8. On the Theory of Labour and Technique as Part of the Labour Process in the Period of Early Capitalism -- Part II -- Chapter Three: Labour Processes in Central Europe, 15th-17th Centuries -- 3.1. The Population and Its Numbers -- 3.2. The Condition of the Peasants -- 3.3. Labour Processes in the City: General Considerations Concerning Harmony and Struggle -- 3.4. The Guild System, the Putting-Out System and Manufacture -- 3.5. Merchants, Trade and Calculating Skills [Rechenkunst] -- 3.5.1. Arithmetic, Calculating Skills -- 3.5.2. Merchants and Trade -- Part III -- Chapter Four: Machines, Mechanics, Time and Geometry -- 4.1. Mechanical Clocks and the Consciousness of Time -- 4.1.1. Mechanical Clocks -- 4.1.2. The Measurement and Consciousness of Time -- 4.2. Wage Labour and the Politics of Wages in the Early Capitalist Period -- 4.3. Labour and Society, Public and Private Interests -- Chapter Five: Mining and Metallurgy -- 5.1. Mining Freedom -- 5.2. Structuring of Labour in Mining During the 14th and 15th Centuries.

5.3. Labour and Processing in Mining -- 5.4. The Iron Industry in Central Europe in the 15th and 16th Centuries -- Europe in the World -- Capitalism and Developed Culture -- From the Social Contract to the Concept of Society in the Capitalist Period -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Index.