The Workplace before the Factory : : Artisans and Proletarians, 1500-1800 /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 12 halftones, 1 map
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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

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