The Workplace before the Factory : : Artisans and Proletarians, 1500-1800 / / Thomas Max. Safley; ed. by Leonard N. Rosenband.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Safley, Thomas Max.,
• MitwirkendeR: Burstin, Haim,; Clark, Christopher,; Davis, Robert C.,; Johnson, Christopher H.,; Karant-Nunn, Susan C.,; Materne, Jan,; Morelli, Roberta,; Rosenband, Leonard N.,; Safley, Thomas Max,; Torras, Jaume,; Vanja, Christina,
• HerausgeberIn: Rosenband, Leonard N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 12 halftones, 1 map

The collection of essays in this book ranges across a wide variety of crafts and industries to offer a unique perspective on the place of labor in the lives ofartisans and wage-earners in the era before large-scale mechanization.The Workplace before the Factory addresses a common theme—the influence of the work process and technological innovation on labor and production before the Industrial Revolution. Covering a broad span of time, place, and enterprise, the authors discuss different kinds of industrial organizations—outwork, small shop, and centralized production. Among the activities they describe are papermaking in eighteenth-century France, linen weaving in Upper Swabia, unskilled labor in Paris, Saxon silver mining, printing in Antwerp, and artisanal crafts in rural New England.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Social Structure and Manufacturing before the Factory: Rural New England, 175°-l83° -- 2. Capitalism and the State: Capital Accumulation and Proletarianization in the Languedocian Woolens Industry, 1700—1789 -- 3. Unskilled Labor in Paris at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- 4. From Adventurers to Drones: The Saxon Silver Miners as an Early Proletariat -- 5. Mining Women in Early Modern European Society -- 6. Production, Transaction, and Proletarianization: The Textile Industry in Upper Swabia, 1580—1660 -- 7. Men of Iron: Masters of the Iron Industry in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany -- 8. From Craft to Class: The Changing Organization of Cloth Manufacturing in a Catalan Town -- 9. Arsenal and Arsenalotti: Workplace and Community in Seventeenth-Century Venice -- 10. Social Emancipation in European Printing Workshops before the Industrial Revolution -- 11. Hiring and Firing at the Montgolfier Paper Mill -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX