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"This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands, occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters, enabling the latter to imprint their mark upon urban society in an economic, socio-cultural and political way. While the urban community was deeply indebted to a corporative spirit and guild ethic originating in medieval Germanic and Christian traditions, guild-based artisans succeeded in being accepted as genuine political (and, hence, rational) actors '" their political identity and agency being based upon their skills and trustworthiness.In the long run, this corporative spirit and power inexorably waned. Yet this book shows that an adequate understanding of the development of European modernity '" i.e., proletarianisation and the emergence of a modern economy and modern economic and political thinking '" requires taking seriously the ruins upon which it is build. These histories can actually be recounted as purifications of sorts, in which the economic was separated from the political, the individual from the social, and the transcendent from the material. While the religiously inspired corporative nature of the urban body politic waned, the urban artisans lost their credibility as political (and rational) actors."--Provided by publisher.

Craft guilds --- Gilds --- Merchant companies --- Workers' associations --- Guilds --- Labor --- History --- Social aspects --- Netherlands --- Social conditions. --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Work --- Working class --- Labor organizations --- Artisans --- Employers' associations --- Labor unions --- Societies, etc. --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Corporations --- Travail --- Conditions sociales --- Histoire. --- Aspect social. --- Sociology of work --- History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- guilds --- social history --- urban history --- labor --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Aspects sociaux --- Pays-Bas --- Condition sociale --- XIVe-XVIIIe s. -- 1301-1800

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Labour economics --- Iconography --- Sculpture --- Painting --- sculpture [visual works] --- iconography --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- labor --- anno 1800-1999 --- Netherlands --- Belgium

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The importance of training and education is on the increase. While the production of human capital is seen as a motor for a competitive economy, skills and expertise proof to be necessary for social mobility. Remarkably, in conceiving modern forms of apprenticeship, several mechanisms from the acien régime, seem to return. The difference between public and private initiative is disappearing, education and training is being confused, and in order to acquire generic skills as flexibility, communicability, self-rule, creativity and so on, youngsters have to learn in context. Even for maths, scholars now talk of situated learning. Before the advent of a formal schooling system, training took place on the shop floor, under the roof of a master. The apprentice not only worked but also lived in his masters house and was thus trained and educated at the same time. In cities, this system was formally complemented by an official apprenticeship system, prescribing a minimum term to serve and an obligatory masterpiece for those who wanted to become masters themselves. Traditionally, historians see this as an archaic and backward way of training, yet this book?s aim is to show that is was instead a very flexible and dynamic system, perfectly in tune with the demands of an early modern economy. In order to understand it fully, however, we should differentiate the informal training system organised via a free market of indentures on the one hand and the institutionalised system of craft guilds on the other. In Antwerp, early modern guilds had a project of emancipating their members. They didn't simply produce certain skills, but through a system of quality marks defended the honour of craftsmen. This is the difference with current practices. By representing hands-on skills as superior, guilds supplied a sort of symbolic capital for workers.

History of Antwerp --- anno 1500-1799 --- Guilds --- Apprenticeship programs --- History. --- Compagnonnage --- --Métiers --- --Anvers --- --Histoire des techniques --- --XVe-XVIIIe s., --- History --- 338 <09> --- Economische geschiedenis --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis --- Corporations --- Apprentissage professionnel --- Histoire --- Craft guilds --- Gilds --- Labor organizations --- Merchant companies --- Workers' associations --- Artisans --- Employers' associations --- Labor unions --- Apprentices --- Apprenticeship --- Programs, Apprenticeship --- Employees --- Societies, etc. --- Training of --- Belgium --- Antwerp (Belgium) --- guilds --- apprenticeship --- Métiers --- Histoire des techniques --- XVe-XVIIIe s., 1401-1800 --- Guilds - Belgium - Antwerp - History --- Apprenticeship programs - Belgium - Antwerp - History --- Anvers --- Apprentis --- Apprentissage --- Anvers (Belgique) --- 15e-18e siècles